More than 2,500 alien plant species could find suitable conditions in the Arctic, especially in northern Norway and Svalbard.

But the real truth is that alien life on other planets could be even stranger than floating balloons or amorphous organisms ...

The sighting at Umtamvuna in December not only marks a win for the species — whose extinction status has remained uncertain for more than 40 years — but also a testament to the Reserve's conservation ...

Cape Town, in South Africa, is famous for its dramatic mountains and coastline, but its greatest treasure lies in the plants that carpet its slopes and valleys. Table Mountain National Park and its ...

A road trip through the Eastern Cape takes Sophy Roberts far from the tourist trail — and to a former leper colony reborn as ...

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 ...

If aliens are out there, why haven’t we heard from them? That’s the question at the center of Pop Mech’s new story, “Aliens Probably Exist—But They’re Staying Silent For a Reason, NASA Scientist ...

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...

Researchers discovered that living horsetails act like natural distillation towers, producing bizarre oxygen isotope signatures more extreme than anything previously recorded on Earth—sometimes ...

On Earth, plants reflect green light — but on Kepler-186f, they’d likely glow deep red. The reason lies in physics: cooler stars like Kepler-186 emit more infrared light than visible light, forcing ...

Pam's Colecovision was her babysitter, from the age of 4 or 5, but the family only had one game. Over and over, hour after hour, she'd climb and jump through the three levels of Donkey Kong. But the ...