But exploring the evolutionary roots of these diverse maternal methods is tough, because reproductive tissues decay quickly ...

A siphonophore—a colonial marine invertebrate related to the venomous stinging Portuguese Man-o-war—is scanned using Deep ...

Advanced aliens, if they exist, may have no physical bodies at all and could be built from materials nothing like human flesh ...

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 ...

What makes something alive? We simply don't know, but synthetic biologists are a step closer to providing an answer thanks to ...

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

This cell-like structure can grow, feed, divide and compete. Researchers ponder what it means for the future of synthetic ...

The Cluster is a form of life organized on principles so different from anything on Earth that understanding it requires ...

In a new paper, researchers examine the possibility of other consciousnesses that take on forms far beyond our imagination.