Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers.

In many Western contexts, organized religion is declining, often due to hypocrisy, politicization or shallow faith. But ...

The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

A Reddit user shared a mind-blowing video of wild mushrooms growing, and people can't get enough of the mesmerizing footage.

Erica Fox, 55, of Pebble Beach, disappeared Dec. 21 as she swam with fellow athletes in Monterey Bay. A body found Saturday ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

For more than a century, popular culture has trained us to picture extraterrestrials as bug-eyed, bipedal “little green men” ...

A new analysis of Saturn's moon Titan that reduced the odds of a subsurface liquid ocean has increased the chances of ...

New laboratory studies could shed light on a rock containing potential signs of alien life that’s stranded on Mars ...

We’ve likely had at least one close encounter of the 3I kind before. Harvard scientist Avi Loeb claims that not only does 3I/ATLAS potentially have alien origins, but that this wouldn’t be the first ...

New research announced by NASA on Tuesday details a bevy of exciting discoveries from asteroid dust that could provide clues to how life developed in our neck of the cosmos, including the sugars ...