The United States government's recent release of hundreds of previously classified Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) ...

Plan the ultimate American West road trip with 13 state-by-state itineraries that’ll take you to glaciers, canyons, hot springs, beaches, volcanoes, and wide-open skies. There’s a lot of scenery to ...

UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme reinforces the bond between people and nature by empowering communities in the World Network of Biosphere Reserves with the tools to protect their ...

One is that, if life does exist on another planet — and it is still an open question for Mars, given the ambiguities in the measurements made by NASA's Viking landers and the anomalous methane plumes ...

In The Biology of Subnautica | Part II, delve deeper into the alien ecosystems of Planet 4546B, examining the complex interdependencies and survival strategies of its marine life. This installment ...

From bubblegum-pink lakes to rivers so hot they can boil animals, Earth has a way of surprising us with natural wonders that seem to defy logic. But these aren’t magic tricks or ghost stories. They ...

The Animal Kingdom writer/director Thomas Cailley blends traditional French social realism with one major element of science fiction (humans turning into animals) to create a dystopian drama that ...

An artist’s impression of the rocky, habitable-zone exoplanet Kepler-168b. Credit: NASA Ames/NASA/JPL–Caltech/Tim Pyle (Caltech) New research suggests that technological civilizations in the Milky Way ...

The tropics and subtropics, collectively the Greater Tropics, are home to most of Earth’s biodiversity and humanity, and are undergoing unprecedented transformations driven by global change. In this ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1950 the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi was discussing the possibility of intelligent alien life with his colleagues. If alien ...

The Fermi Paradox ponders an endlessly fascinating question: If so many worlds exist in the universe, why haven’t we detected any sign of extraterrestrial life? A possible reason, called the ...