Scientists studying Jupiter’s moon Europa have zeroed in on a strange, spider-like feature etched into the moon’s icy shell, ...

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In Earth's fossil record, soft-bodied organisms like jellyfish rarely stand the test of time. What's more, it's hard for any ...

Deep beneath Alaska's frozen soils, scientists have awakened microbes frozen for up to 42,400 years, revealing how ancient ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have identified the genes that allow an organism to switch between living as single ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

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Far below the ocean’s surface, where sunlight disappears and pressure reaches crushing levels, some of the planet’s strangest life forms thrive. These deep-sea creatures have evolved in total darkness ...

It is unclear whether a [3I/ATLAS] would transmit radio signals … such signals would take tens of thousands of years to cross ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

During its original network run in the 1960s, Star Trek was famously saved from cancellation twice by fan letter-writing ...