Deep-sea explorers discovered tiny, jet-black spheres clinging to rocks nearly four miles beneath the Pacific Ocean. These ...

From the Greys to the Nordics, these aliens appear frequently across abduction stories and science fiction tales.

Some creative calculations using bug traps, epidemiology and trees suggest there are some 20 million unique insect species on ...

Case in point: Scientists from Tokyo University and Hokkaido University in Japan stumbled across some mysterious jet-black ...

Palaeontologist Steve Brusatte discusses India's potential as a dinosaur hotspot and the importance of young scientists in ...

The fossil belongs to the Titanosaur, the largest creature to ever walk the earth. It was unearthed in 1985 but has been ...

A fossil of the creature provides the first evidence that microraptors lived in what is now northwestern China. Its discovery ...

Sea stars can produce eggs for up to 200 years. Their surprisingly human-like ovaries may offer clues about fertility and reproductive aging.

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...

Much of the ocean floor remains unexplored. There are areas of the Pacific that are extremely remote and have not been studied in enough detail to understand them. When scientists first began studying ...

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When I look at the night sky, I don’t wonder whether alien life is somewhere out there; I think it probably is. Considering the sheer number of stars in the cosmos, and the possibly larger number of ...