Earth is home to creatures so strange, beautiful, and bizarre that it’s easy to forget we share the planet with them. These ...

Clearing water-guzzling and soil-damaging alien invasive plants costs South Africa several hundred million rands every year.

One hundred twenty light-years from us, there is an exoplanet that can potentially host life. It's called K2-18b, and it's ...

While there’s no concrete consensus on a list of prerequisites for life to evolve on other planets, there are at least a ...

Scientists have discovered 26 new bacterial species that survived the extreme sterilization protocols of NASA cleanrooms ...

Yes, zombie creatures from another world could indeed land on a defenseless planet, but in a twist, it's the Earthlings who ...

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

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They're some of the most sterile places on Earth - but scientists have discovered dozens of new bacterial species inside NASA ...

While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.

It is possible to visit this strange place of 'snotties', psychedelic stalactites and long abandoned artefacts ...