Long before mammals dominated the land and even before the most famous dinosaurs appeared, Earth was home to a wide variety ...

The platypus is one of nature’s strangest mammals. This egg-laying animal sweats milk, hunts by sensing electrical signals, carries venomous spurs, and even glows under ultraviolet light. Discover the ...

Calling all fans of paleontology and natural history — NBC's new eight-part docu-series Surviving Earth will premiere on Thursday, June 4, on NBC at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

Sydney Chandler is very excited about her Alien: Earth season 2 return, even if she doesn't know what the plan is for Wendy ...

Those bizarre sea creatures that light up like carnival rides are actually ctenophores, which have an ancient brainlike ...

The fastest creature in the world isn’t a cheetah or a falcon: it’s a single-celled organism known as Spirostomum ambiguum, commonly found in bodies of ...

You kind of knew that Steven Spielberg believes in aliens. But did you know know? In your heart of hearts? The man behind E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and War of the Worlds is leaving no ...

The filmmakers tell IndieWire about returning to directing, the fear inherent to all creativity, and the adorable new alien Rocky.

Scientists have uncovered surprising complexity in a tiny sensory structure found in comb jellies, some of the oldest animals on Earth.

In Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s adaptation of Andy Weir’s novel, Ryan Gosling’s star power fuels an unlikely tale of far-flung friendship.

New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder ...

"Project Hail Mary," in theaters March 20, champions the joy of learning in a humorous take on the scientific method and apocalyptic space thrillers.