Supun Dilshan won the Photographer of the Year Portfolio for “Trapped Between Worlds,” a set of images capturing the plight ...

"We're arguing that intelligent life may not require a series of lucky breaks to exist," said lead author Dan Mills of the ...

Once scientists have collected an eDNA sample, they analyze it via bar coding, which can either look for a single species or ...

New research shows that fluctuating environmental conditions helped chemical mixtures self-organize and evolve in structured ...

The show, narrated by Tom Hanks, offers glimpses of critters large and small. And capturing that footage is no small feat.

Researchers present an alternative to the long-held “hard steps” theory to explain the evolution of complex life, suggesting ...

Grave warnings have been issued about the dangers of creating life forms using mirror-image molecules. How worried should we be?

Alphabet’s Google is scrapping its goal to hire more employees from underrepresented groups and is reviewing some of its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, joining a slew of U.S.

These are obvious signs that Earth has intelligent, spacefaring life. Technosignatures are any observable traces or clues that point to the presence of intelligent, technologically advanced life.

Samples of matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building blocks of life to Earth, scientists report in a pair of new studies published ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

President Donald Trump’s recently issued executive order (EO) putting a stop to diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in the U.S. government is sending ripples far and wide, into areas that some ...