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A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

A recent theory proposes that whales weren’t just predators in the ocean environment: Nutrients that whales excreted may have ...

Travel back through time to meet the world’s most enormous animals, brace yourself for the final fantastic adventure in a ...

Behind the wheel is Nick Leseberg, an ecologist, who drives at a slow but steady pace with keen eyes that miss little in the ...

ANDES stands for ArmazoNes high Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph. AndES is a high-resolution instrument that can search for ...

This illustration shows ... are gaining traction here on Earth. “Circularity” in this sense refers to waste-management principles calling for the end of life of a product to be designed ...

For more than 150 years, scientists have debated whether Prototaxites—which stood roughly 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide—were an early lichen or fungus, like a “giant mushroom” ...

An illustration of a ... that would look for signs of life in the atmospheres of other worlds — will be able to closely investigate this intriguing super-Earth. "Excitingly, its proximity ...