New method reveals chemical signs of early microbial life in ancient Earth rocks, showing photosynthesis evolved much earlier than believed.

A mind-controlling fungus wakes from Cold Storage in Jonny Campbell's charmingly silly gross-out horror-comedy.

We know the main reason that the age of the dinosaurs came to an end: an asteroid impact on the Yucatán Peninsula some 66 million years ago. But how the dinosaurs’ reign began is far less clear—and ...

Life may have started in sticky, rock-hugging gels rather than inside cells. Researchers suggest these primitive, biofilm-like materials could trap and concentrate molecules, giving early chemistry a ...

A new study from Caltech explores the remarkable way a SoCal beetle infiltrates the colonies of the ant that runs the show in ...

Directive 8020 has set a release date after a previous delay, and the announcement comes alongside a new trailer.

Is intelligent alien life really out there? With powerful telescopes identifying more potentially habitable planets each year ...

If we were to ever find alien life, breaking the news to the general public could be much more difficult than one might think ...

A NASA spacecraft has discovered organic chemicals on 3I/ATLAS, which Harvard scientist Avi Loeb claims raises the ...

Life’s story may stretch further back than scientists once thought. Some genes found in nearly every organism today were already duplicated before all life shared a common ancestor. By tracking these ...

A 307-million-year-old fossil reveals that some of Earth’s earliest land animals were already experimenting with a ...

This video examines whether alien plants could actually be blue and what physics says about plant color beyond Earth. It ...