There may be twice as many vertebrates on the planet as previous estimates claimed, according to a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. That's ...

An updated checklist provides insights into the city’s flora: from showcasing the global significance of its endemic plants to the unique ecology that has shaped this diversity.

The curious minds at What If imagine the astonishing scenario of the James Webb Telescope discovering alien life, exploring how this revelation could transform science, society, and our place in the ...

More than 2,500 alien plant species could find suitable conditions in the Arctic, especially in northern Norway and Svalbard.

Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be ...

Scientists have discovered something that they previously thought wasn’t possible – an ‘inside out’ star system. When you line all the planets in our solar system up, the four closest to the sun are ...

Analysis - Cape Town, in South Africa, is famous for its dramatic mountains and coastline, but its greatest treasure lies in ...

A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

Yet conveying any tantalizing clues about life beyond Earth would be a challenge, as data from these kinds of missions would be limited to spikes of molecules in spectrograph readings, leaving it to ...

Not every great science fiction movie starts a franchise or gets a sequel, and we've been waiting multiple decades for some of these.