This study ranks Florida among the top states for alien abduction reports, where you have 1 in 1,102 odds of an extraterrestrial beaming you up.

Some exoplanets, especially those orbiting cooler red dwarfs, might host purple plant life rather than the green-hue vegetation found on Earth. A study from Cornell University discovered that a ...

Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s “habitable zone,” often considered the gold standard of potential livability ...

The Colombian town of Buga was already on the map, not for science, but for faith. Its Basilica of the Miraculous Lord draws thousands of Catholic pilgrims annually. But since March 2, 2025, a ...

A self-published 2022 paper by retired paleontologist Clifford Miles claimed eight Nazca mummies from Peru represented a new family, genus, and species, arguing their anatomy could not have evolved on ...

Researchers have reported detecting all five canonical nucleobases used in DNA and RNA in samples collected from the carbonaceous asteroid Ryugu, building on analyses enabled by Japan’s Hayabusa2 ...

A rock measuring 900 meters is on a journey through our solar system, providing what is arguably one of the strongest pieces ...

The ocean is still one of the biggest mysteries on Earth, and the deeper you go, the stranger it gets. Far below the surface, ...

A new genetic study published in the journal Cell is filling in some important details about the earliest inhabitants of Palau, an island nation in the western Pacific Ocean consisting of ...

Debunking alien claims matters, but so does telling richer, more compelling stories about how humans shaped their own past.

Scientists have found that all five of the substances that make up DNA and RNA in samples from Ryugu, the asteroid Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency visited in 2020.

An interdisciplinary study recently published in Nature Communications provides a clearer picture of life in Central Europe ...