We’re used to green plants, but that color is shaped by our Sun. On planets orbiting different types of stars, photosynthesis could evolve to absorb different wavelengths of light — producing red, ...

Cape Town, in South Africa, is famous for its dramatic mountains and coastline, but its greatest treasure lies in the plants that carpet its slopes and valleys. Table Mountain National Park and its ...

Environment / Books & the Arts / James C. Scott’s last book, In Praise of Floods, asks if it’s too late for humanity to ...

Scientists have discovered deep-sea and underground microbial ecosystems thriving without sunlight, powered by hydrogen gas produced through geological processes like radiolysis and serpentinization.

But the real truth is that alien life on other planets could be even stranger than floating balloons or amorphous organisms ...

President Trump directed his administration to release files on UFOs and any "alien and extraterrestrial life," an issue that has drawn decades of fascination — and spawned more than a few wild ...

In a Truth Social post, the U.S. president said his move was based on the "tremendous interest" in the subject, without providing additional details.

On Thursday the U.S. president ordered the release of federal files related to UFOs and aliens, although no evidence of extraterrestrials visiting Earth is known to exist ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday said he would direct the Pentagon and other government agencies to release government records related to extraterrestrial life and UFOs.