While we're living on the hockey-stick curve of exponential technological evolution, even some of the earliest, grainiest sci ...

Galápagos plants show repeated evolution and emerging species, emphasizing evolution’s flexibility and active role today.

For years, the Fermi Paradox made one idea seem obvious: in a universe this huge, alien civilizations should be everywhere.

To mark David Attenborough turning 100, New Scientist staff have been set a tricky task: pick your favourite of his many ...

A look at how speculative evolution grew from science fiction and natural history into a creative way to imagine future and alien life.

Evolution seems to follow a script more often than expected. Researchers found that distantly related butterflies and moths ...

President Donald Trump says the Pentagon is preparing to release some “very interesting” UFO files uncovered by his ...

The brightly colored jellylike marine life, called “Velella velella,” show up every few years when strong winds blow in the ...

ALMA reveals unusual “alien” water in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, showing it formed in an extremely cold, distant star ...

Long before humans spread across the globe, a deadly disease may have quietly shaped where our ancestors lived—and even how we evolved. New research reveals that malaria didn’t just threaten early ...

The Tom Cruise-led adaptation of War of the Worlds is now streaming for free. Find out where to watch the Steven Spielberg ...

A new study has identified a potentially record-breaking haul of transiting exoplanets, thanks to a machine learning ...