At first glance, the Drake Equation looks like a hopeful scientific tool. In reality, it leads to disturbing possibilities about isolation, extinction, and survival. This breakdown explains the ...

In South Africa there’s a little-known ecosystem, containing more plant species than the entire Amazon, plants that are found ...

Samus Aran, the science fiction protagonist in the Metroid series, is arguably Nintendo’s most mysterious character. She ...

New species are being discovered faster than ever before — at a rate of more than 16,000 every year, suggests a new study.

Breakthrough Listen searched for technosignatures from interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS but found no unusual signals or behavior ...

Researchers used Green Bank Telescope to detect radio signals from 3I/ATLAS just before its closest approach to Earth.

It's glory kills galore, as the hunter recreates some of the franchise's most brutal moments with the reindeer. All those ...

Extinction Rebellion is a global environmental movement rebelling against the corporate destruction of a liveable planet.

Roger Ebert was a vocal proponent of this Charlie Sheen-starring 1996 sci-fi flick, though that wasn't enough to prevent it ...

Known to science as Iguana delicatissima (as in Latin for “most delicate”, not delicatessen, you hungry hungry humans), ...

The search for life on Earth is speeding up, not slowing down. Scientists are now identifying more than 16,000 new species ...

About 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out on a bold quest: to identify and name every living organism on ...