It’s a beautiful night. Just you, a bottle of wine and your partner drifting through the cosmos in a UFO. As your caress ...

Are we alone in the universe? Consider mysterious "extraterrestrial" radio signals. Unexplained gases on other planets.

After a two week expedition off the coast of Brazil, an international team of researchers discovered 31 new marine species, ...

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

Capture, Amanda Lohrey’s 10th book, is an odd beast. It follows sexagenarian Dr James “Jim” Mather, a clinical psychiatrist who is persuaded by a colleague to take on a new cohort of patients. The ...

Today:Early fog in the far southwest clears quickly. Most areas stay dry with sunshine and variable cloud, though northern and northeastern regions may see isolated showers. Light winds overall, ...

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Deep in Cambodia’s isolated caves, a turquoise viper hides in total darkness while another serpent launches into the air. Scientists never expected these discoveries in “empty” caverns. Instead, ...

We explore the strange food-obsessed world of a new game whose tech was once called ‘an insult to life itself’ by Hayao Miyazaki, the film-maker behind Spirited Away A strange piece of software has ...

A new method for analyzing modern and archaic human DNA has thrown up some fascinating results. It appears that modern humans (Homo Sapiens) mated earlier and more frequently with an archaic human ...

Erich von Däniken, who has died aged 90, was among the first writers to suggest that human civilisation, and even human evolution, are the product of deliberate intervention by extra-terrestrials. His ...

A new study presented to the Royal Society meeting on ancient DNA in London last week has revealed a dramatic finding – the genome of one of our ancient ancestors, the Denisovans, contains a segment ...