You think you know Earth? You think you understand its vast, hidden realms? Prepare to have your perceptions shattered.

Before zombies shambled about, ghoulishly feasting on the flesh of those too slow to flee, aliens from outer space ruled ...

Interest in unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) surged in February when Barack Obama stated aliens are "real," though he ...

Fossils from China's Jiangchuan Biota suggest complex life evolved earlier than thought. The site revealed Ediacaran-era ...

The vast majority of our planet remains a complete mystery, hidden beneath miles of crushing water where sunlight never penetrates. In this eternal darkness, evolution has taken a path so bizarre that ...

A humble mollusk can live to 507. The oldest Greenland sharks navigate deep, dark Arctic waters for longer than America has existed. And the wrinkly, cancer-resistant naked mole rat can live well into ...

Sometimes, nature delivers a surprise that feels almost miraculous. Scientists have confirmed that two small marsupial species — the pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider — are still ...

A new method to recognise the chemical properties of living things could help us detect alien life even if it functions differently from life on Earth. When searching for alien life, scientists ...

These creatures have watched the world go through bouts of radical change for 500 million years. They saw the rise and fall of the dinosaurs, the first hesitant steps of our ancestors onto dry land, ...