From contact with aliens courtesy of Adrian Tchaikovsky to the childhood writings of Octavia E. Butler, February’s sci-fi ...

In February 1995, a small research organization known as the SETI Institute launched what was then the most comprehensive ...

They packed up food, water and extra clothes and set off. Hundreds of Serbian university students on Thursday started an 80-kilometer (50-mile) march toward the northern city of Novi Sad, the latest ...

Fossilized vomit is not something paleontologists come across every day, which makes it a very rare and important find.

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Two new European projects just kicked off aiming to tackle invasive alien species across marine, freshwater and terrestrial ...

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When searching for alien life, it’s not unusual to use Earth as a test bed for theories and even practice runs. Perhaps one ...

Discover how scientists blend biology, synthetic biology, and astrobiology to speculate on alien life forms, focusing on the ...