Scientists have stumbled on a rare dinosaur fossil from Antarctica tucked in a drawer. It comes from the tail of a long-necked, plant-eating dinosaur called a titanosaur. The fossil was ...

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When I look at the night sky, I don’t wonder whether alien life is somewhere out there; I think it probably is. Considering the sheer number of stars in the cosmos, and the possibly larger number of ...

With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination with extraterrestrials.

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BEIJING — A 120 million-year-old fossil found in what's now northwestern China is changing how scientists think about an unusual group of predatory dinosaurs known as microraptors. The location where ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life.

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