Erich von Däniken, who has died aged 90, was among the first writers to suggest that human civilisation, and even human ...

Rare, 9‑foot-tall red‑necked ostriches, sometimes nicknamed “camel birds” for their towering height and desert stride, have ...

Dogs can have wildly different personalities, which often vary by breed and size. Although individual temperament matters ...

Tiny delays in pulsar signals measured by SETI scientists could aid the search for gravitational waves and extraterrestrial ...

Humans have always been fascinated with space. We frequently question whether we are alone in the universe. If not, what does intelligent life look like? And how would aliens communicate?

Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

Learning doesn’t always mean flipping through heavy textbooks or sitting in a long lecture. Sometimes, it just takes ...

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

One female mouse, among the four experimental mice previously sent into space aboard the Shenzhou-21 crewed spacecraft, delivered nine pups around 6:00 am on December 10 after returning to Earth , ...