Researchers have discovered a highly specialized community of sea creatures living 6 miles beneath the ocean surface—deeper ...

A large sub-Neptune-sized planet revolving around a red dwarf star 124 light years away has been the topic of debate among ...

In an expedition led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, scientists ventured into the depths of the northwest Pacific Ocean, ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has cowritten a research paper speculating whether the comet 3I/ATLAS is in fact "hostile" ...

A planet more than 100 light years away from Earth could be "teeming with alien life" after the "strongest ever signs of ...

Laura is an editor and staff writer at IFLScience. She obtained her Master's in Experimental Neuroscience from Imperial ...

A fantastic alien adventure can be found on our very own planet by studying the microbial life in Earth's crust, according to Karen G. Lloyd's new book Intraterrestrials ...

While popular culture commonly depicts extraterrestrial life as little green men with large, oval-shaped heads, it’s most ...

Case in point: Scientists from Tokyo University and Hokkaido University in Japan stumbled across some mysterious jet-black eggs while piloting a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) in the Pacific Ocean at ...

The planet in question, K2-18b, was discovered in 2015 by NASA's Kepler mission, which revealed that planets outside our solar system are so common that they outnumber stars.

This artist's impression depicts what a water world with a hydrogen atmosphere, such as planet K2-18b, might look like. (A. Smith, N. Madhusudhan | University of Cambridge) An ocean world that's ...