A siphonophore—a colonial marine invertebrate related to the venomous stinging Portuguese Man-o-war—is scanned using Deep ...

Teetering near endangered status, the starlet sea anemone produces “an ancient mechanism” for fighting viruses that ...

When you ask anyone to name the ultimate adversary of the Man of Steel, you will almost universally hear the same few answers ...

Deep beneath the Atlantic, an alien-like lost city of towering chimneys offers clues to life on Earth and other worlds.

Scientists propose a simple but powerful new method for detecting traces of alien biology, whether on Jupiter's icy moons, in ...

The Trump administration has a history of disappointing releases of confidential material: on aliens, Covid-19 and Jefferey ...

U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has released newly declassified documents claiming U.S. funding supported more than 120 biological research facilities across over 30 countries, ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life. Tardigrades—a type of invertebrate ...

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new picture of how life on Earth – and elsewhere – may have begun ...

Researchers discovered that life leaves behind unique statistical patterns in molecules, potentially offering a new way to identify alien biology. Credit: Stock Scientists may have found a hidden ...

Space agencies have spent decades designing life-detection instruments around a single idea: biology leaves specific molecules behind. Send the right probe, find the right chemicals, and the question ...

Two rovers have had big breaks over the past few years in the case of whether Mars ever hosted life. Curiosity, which is exploring Gale Crater, conducted a chemistry experiment on a rock sample that ...