Astrobiologists say we could find evidence of microbial life within the next 10–20 years. What does that mean? Where are we ...

China and Russia have signed a new agreement to build a nuclear power plant on the Moon, designed to support a fully autonomous research station at the lunar South Pole. The International Lunar ...

Gem & Jam — which returned after organizers took time to regroup last year — is where the older hippie heads and aficionados ...

Australia is doing absolutely everything to protect its most iconic ecosystem — except, perhaps, the one thing that really matters.

The DHS secretary signed a waiver granting the CBP authority to circumvent 28 laws aimed at protecting natural resources to build a "Smart Wall." ...

On Thursday the U.S. president ordered the release of federal files related to UFOs and aliens, although no evidence of extraterrestrials visiting Earth is known to exist ...

ST. GEORGE, Utah (ABC4) — The Utah Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently approved the construction of a highway in Washington County. While many have concerns about the project’s environmental ...

Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo ...

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Astrobiologists propose that alien civilizations need accessible coal deposits to industrialize exoplanets and become detectable from Earth.

An extraordinary 512-million-year-old fossil site has been discovered in southern China, preserving in vivid detail almost an entire ecosystem from a time shortly after Earth’s first mass extinction ...

At Davos, the billionaire said his belief that “it might only be us” in the cosmos drives Tesla, SpaceX, and his vision for humanity’s future. Elon Musk proclaimed he’s an alien during a Thursday ...