The American oyster once flourished along Maine’s coast. The proof is in the huge oyster middens — piles of discarded shells — on the banks of the Damariscotta River. Scientists believe these middens ...

Researchers working with the Smithsonian poured over 10,061 artifacts and other elements to determine whether tiny ‘Homo ...

Researchers fed a Komodo dragon a goat to figure out if Homo floresiensis truly were the hunters they were originally thought to be.

Instead of hunting big game or wielding fire, the hobbit-like hominin Homo floresiensis likely scavenged leftovers of prey ...

Could humans spread Earth life beyond our planet? Astrobiologists explain where extremophiles might survive and why the risks ...

Thus far, our search for extraterrestrial life points toward Clarke’s former point, suggesting that our little blue dot is ...

When the U.S. was born, humanity was still seven years away from balloon-borne flight. Where might we be another 250 years from now, should the nation be fortunate enough to survive that long?

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

This new group, which is led by Harvard professor Avi Loeb, aims to advise the Trump administration and the U.S. intelligence ...

A polarizing Harvard astronomer known for splashy theories about alien visits has been tapped by the Trump administration to ...

Loeb's team will report to a new White House panel focused on UFOs, now often referred to as unidentified anomalous phenomena ...

Disclosure Day has plenty of UFOs and extraterrestrial species but very little of the human insights found in the filmmaker’s ...