From ancient myths to modern science, the idea that we may not be alone has fueled curiosity, fear and hope in equal measure.

Cameron University’s Comanche Battalion ROTC commissioned two cadets as second lieutenants in the U.S. Army in a recent ...

A 410-million-year-old lungfish fossil from China reveals a key link, offering new insight into how early vertebrates ...

Dressed in an orange puffer jacket, Japanese scientist Yoshinori Iizuka stepped into a storage freezer to retrieve an ice ...

Just yesterday (Dec. 15), the Green River levee was breached, raising the specter of flash flooding in Tukwila, south of ...

In a Caribbean cave, researchers discovered hundreds of fossils with bee nests within them. It is the first time this behavior has been recorded, a new study finds.

The floor of the Cueva de Mono, a cave in the Dominican Republic, is a gruesome graveyard. For thousands of years, it served ...

The discovery marks a significant moment for a theory that was once dismissed as fringe science but is now gaining serious scientific traction. Panspermia is far from a modern invention. The concept ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

Indigenous people have coexisted with Australia's vast and ancient groundwater systems for thousands of generations. Their ...

In Old Norse mythology, Baldr, the son of the god Odin and the goddess Frigg, was slain with a mistletoe spear. Some interpretations suggest that, “kissing under the mistletoe symbolizes forgiveness, ...

The World Health Organization opens a major conference on traditional medicine on Wednesday, arguing that new technologies, ...