In a blow to anyone dreaming that complex life may exist elsewhere in the universe, a new study suggests we're unlikely to ...

Clearing water-guzzling and soil-damaging alien invasive plants costs South Africa several hundred million rands every year.

After water crisis in Madhya Pradesh's Indore, groundwater samples from several parts of Bhopal have tested positive for E.

One hundred twenty light-years from us, there is an exoplanet that can potentially host life. It's called K2-18b, and it's ...

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

Earth is home to creatures so strange, beautiful, and bizarre that it’s easy to forget we share the planet with them. These ...

While there’s no concrete consensus on a list of prerequisites for life to evolve on other planets, there are at least a ...

Blue blood may look alien, but it’s one of evolution’s most elegant solutions to life in extreme environments. Here’s how ...

It is possible to visit this strange place of 'snotties', psychedelic stalactites and long abandoned artefacts ...

For more than a century, the idea that life might have arrived on our planet from elsewhere in the cosmos sat at the fringes ...

While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.