An ancient human ancestor called Homo floresiensis was likely a scavenger who subsisted on the scraps left behind by the ...

Researchers fed a Komodo dragon a goat to figure out if Homo floresiensis truly were the hunters they were originally thought to be.

However, paleoanthropologists, who look for evidence explaining human evolution, are far from convinced. The chances that ...

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

From the lightbulb to the airplane, to medical breakthroughs and the internet age, the past 250 years have been defined by ...

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

Teetering near endangered status, the starlet sea anemone produces “an ancient mechanism” for fighting viruses that ...

The idea that octopuses might be aliens emerged from the theory of panspermia (Stelele 2018), according to which life on Earth is not entirely of terrestrial ...

This new group, which is led by Harvard professor Avi Loeb, aims to advise the Trump administration and the U.S. intelligence ...

A polarizing Harvard astronomer known for splashy theories about alien visits has been tapped by the Trump administration to ...

A controversial Harvard University cosmologist who has suggested alien lifeforms could be sailing into the solar system disguised as meteors is leading the Trump administration’ ...