For decades, astronomers have chased fleeting hints that something alive might be lurking beyond Earth, only to watch each ...

The Living Worlds Working Group proposes a revolutionary approach to finding life on distant planets. The paper, part of the ...

"A plague is upon us'' may have been a common phrase in ancient Jordan, where countless people perished from a mysterious ...

A fossil discovery in northern Ethiopia expands the known range of Paranthropus, a genus of strong-jawed hominins that lived ...