WASHINGTON (AP) — A polarizing Harvard astronomer known for splashy theories about alien visits has been tapped by the White House to lead a team of outside scientists to study the national security ...

Case in point: Scientists from Tokyo University and Hokkaido University in Japan stumbled across some mysterious jet-black ...

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While some conservation initiatives have been applauded as triumphs for wildlife, others, no matter how positive the ...

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A rare visitor from another star system prompted SETI to hunt for alien technology, but the mysterious object appears to be a ...

Astrobiologists think extraterrestrial civilisations grow so much that they hit crisis points, missing the chance to set out ...

A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about where you live than about what consciousness really requires.

Credit: Gaorong Li and Xiaodong Wang New fossils hint that the roots of complex animal life stretch further back than ...

An ocean sunfish was captured around one mile off Brighton Marina on June 19 by Kurt Lander of Yellowfin Charter Fishing ...