A dome-fronted submersible sinks beneath the waves off Indonesia, heading down nearly 1,000 meters in search of new species, plastic-eating microbes and compounds that could one day make medicines.

Chinese scientists' claims that their "Sky Eye" telescope could have picked up signals from intelligent aliens have been met ...

The curious minds at What If explore what life would be like on Kepler-22b, imagining alien ecosystems, climate, and ...

High-energy particles zipping through the cosmos are harmful to life on Earth, but scientists think it could be food for potential alien life elsewhere. Saturn's moon Enceladus (shown here in a 2006 ...