This video explores whether alien life would really need DNA, or whether that assumption is just a product of Earth’s own biology. By looking at RNA worlds, alternative genetic molecules like XNAs, ...

The ongoing season of “Rick and Morty” continues to leave a lasting impact on viewers with each of its brilliant episodes, with the latest one, “Mortgully: The Last Rickforest,” making learning about ...

A new exoplanet model screens rocky worlds by their ability to retain atmospheres over geologic timescales, helping narrow the search for potentially habitable planets beyond Earth. When you purchase ...

If a dragonfly lands on you, it's easy to feel like you've received a message. But what are these creatures trying to say?

(RNS) — Roughly a third of the way into Steven Spielberg’s new blockbuster film “Disclosure Day,” which focuses on the theoretical release of evidence documenting the existence of alien life, a ...

Has the answer to life’s origins been hiding in our cells all along? The surprising discovery of mysterious blobs inside our ...

Oliver Tree, the California-born singer-songwriter known for tracks like “Life Goes On,” “When I’m Down” and “Miss You,” died in a helicopter crash in Rio de Janeiro, according to CNN Brazil. He was ...

Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty season 9 episode 7, titled Mortgully: The Last Rickforest, turns a simple mission to collect valuable tree sap into a bizarre survival challenge that pushes Rick and Morty ...

Scientists say moons around rogue planets wandering through the galaxy could remain warm enough for life thanks to tidal heating and hydrogen-rich atmospheres. These dark, starless worlds may have had ...

We're still in the definition phase of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), but it seems like every week a new research group comes out with a paper helping to shape what is becoming one of the ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — What was once considered fringe or conspiratorial has in recent months popped up everywhere from the White House to the Catholic Church, as public fascination with unidentified ...