Scientists have discovered erythrulose, a natural sugar also found in raspberries and fake tan, floating in interstellar ...

Could humans spread Earth life beyond our planet? Astrobiologists explain where extremophiles might survive and why the risks ...

Thus far, our search for extraterrestrial life points toward Clarke’s former point, suggesting that our little blue dot is ...

Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, Bolivia, Egypt, Hawaii, Easter Island and other exotic places. With special ...

Painted caves have fascinated people for more than a century. The animals, handprints, and strange marks left on bare rock pull us toward a world we can barely picture. Yet the people behind that art ...

For the first time, scientists have shown that ancient human DNA can survive for thousands of years on cave walls, opening new ways to study prehistoric human activity. This interdisciplinary study ...

The discovery of all five nucleobases on Ryugu strengthens the idea that life’s molecular ingredients formed in space before reaching Earth. A new study reports that samples from the asteroid Ryugu ...

This video starts with a simple question — does life really need DNA? — and then turns it into something much bigger. From RNA worlds and TNA protocells to exotic XNAs, methane-compatible chemistries, ...

Sega has created a life-size Sonic the Hedgehog figure that contains synthetic “Sonic DNA” to celebrate the blue blur’s 35th anniversary. In what is arguably one of the most bizarre things I’ve ...

A federal immigration judge has granted asylum to a woman orphaned in Iran in the 1970s and adopted by an American war veteran, who immigration officials threatened earlier this year with deportation ...

The International Academy of Astronautics has updated its protocols for confirming and announcing the discovery of alien life. New guidelines address the modern challenges of social media, ...