"Star Trek" is home to countless alien species, many of whom offer beloved characters. Some are not. We rank the 10 most ...

A study in fruit flies suggests an internal genomic arms race may be driving rapid evolution in proteins that still perform an essential, unchanging job: protecting chromosome ends.

Mammals keep evolving into anteaters, eating only ants and termites, at least 12 times since the age the dinosaurs.

Andrej Karpathy warns that AI’s rapid evolution is refactoring programming itself, pushing developers to adapt faster than ...

A comet from another star system is putting on a show that looks uncannily like a heartbeat, with bright jets of gas and dust ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

How do you study the invisible?” This was the challenge the scientists at the ESA faced during the early days of December ...

Astronomers thought they had seen the "first hints of life on an alien world" this year, but they disappeared under closer ...

I/ATLAS has passed its closest point to Earth, meaning we will soon lose sight of it for good. Some scientists want to send a spacecraft to chase down the alien comet — or the next interstellar object ...

Long before scientists discovered that other stars in the universe host their own planetary systems, humanity had ...

Is there an Outer SpaceX? With 3I/ATLAS set to fly by Earth in just over a week, experts continue to speculate over its origins. Harvard Scientist Avi Loeb believes that if aliens, the comet wouldn’t ...

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