Alien: Isolation is still considered one of the smartest horror games ever made because of its terrifying AI system. The ...

Rare 160-million-year-old sea spider fossils from Southern France look nearly identical to living species, revealing a body ...

Astronomers studying the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS say it could be a 12‑billion‑year‑old relic formed in near‑absolute‑zero ...

If an alien intelligence were hiding somewhere on Earth, many scientists suspect it might look something like an octopus.

The Northern Neck region where Fossil Beach is located remains one of Virginia’s quieter areas, which is excellent news for ...

New Mexico's carved hoodoos, expansive badlands, and rising mesas feel like they belong in another world, far away from the ...

Did our AI summary help? Imagine a scorpion longer than a cricket bat crawling across ancient Britain. A new study confirms that the largest scorpion ever discovered lived around 415 million years ago ...

If someone told you that you could walk along a Virginia beach and pick up shark teeth from creatures that lived 15 million years ago, you’d probably assume they’d been out in the sun too long. Yet ...

Scientists may have found a powerful new way to hunt for alien life — not by searching for specific molecules, but by looking for hidden patterns in how those molecules are organized. Researchers ...

At first, they looked like muddy chunks of ancient shell. But these 20-million-year-old fossil oysters had been slowly replaced with agate over time, creating hidden patterns inside the stone. When ...

Two rovers have had big breaks over the past few years in the case of whether Mars ever hosted life. Curiosity, which is exploring Gale Crater, conducted a chemistry experiment on a rock sample that ...

For decades, the search for life beyond Earth has revolved around a key question: What molecules should scientists be looking for on other planets or moons? A new study, published in Nature Astronomy, ...