What if an alien species had a complete evolutionary history stretching billions of years? This deep dive explores the ...

A column by Winona LaDuke, an Ojibwe writer and economist on Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation. She also is co-curator of ...

Scientists suggest that advanced aliens might not have physical bodies, challenging traditional views of extraterrestrial ...

From mosquitoes to bed bugs, parasites have always stuck close to humanity, and they continue to shape our lives to this day, ...

An illustration of the hazy, pink-hued gassy giant GJ504b, which may be a massive planet or a brown dwarf orbiting a nearby ...

The octopus is one of the strangest animals ever to evolve. With 500 million neurons—most of them located in its eight arms rather than its brain—it can solve puzzles, recognize individual people, ...

Anyone with even a passing interest in Earth’s beauty might feel jealous of Lewis’s sojourn with plentiful tortoises, iguanas ...

Some frogs have evolved features so strange that scientists struggle to explain them, and a few look less like amphibians ...

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) revealed a distant planet located 40,000 light-years away using microlensing for the first time.

The planets are extremely large, with TOI-791 b being about the same size as Jupiter, and TOI-791 c even larger. Yet, they ...

Movies like Arrival and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind feature the best and most powerful endings in the history of ...