The search for alien life no longer feels like a fringe idea or a distant fantasy. This video walks through the strongest ...

The search for alien life no longer feels like pure speculation. This video walks through the strongest signs ever put forward, from the Wow Signal to Martian fossil claims and other near-breakthrough ...

Image: Conceptual illustration of a possible signal from an alien civilization reaching Earth.Detecting such signals — or ...

Scientists have discovered “alien-like” water inside a 400-million-year-old plant, revealing unusual chemistry that could ...

Marine fossils discovered near the summit of Mount Everest. (Image: X/@MAstronomers) Marine fossils near Everest's summit show ancient ocean origins. Everest's summit rocks are marine limestone from ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists believe they’ve deduced why prehistoric Ediacara Biota fossils have remained preserved for millions of years. The fossils of these ...

Cambrian Period fossils date to about 512 million years ago Fossils show invertebrates of various shapes and sizes They reveal animal legs, gills, guts, eyes and even nerves Jan 28 (Reuters) - ...

An extraordinary 512-million-year-old fossil site has been discovered in southern China, preserving in vivid detail almost an entire ecosystem from a time shortly after Earth’s first mass extinction ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where preservation shouldn’t be possible. Scientists now think their survival in ...

Lucia Suarez Sang is an associate managing editor at CBSNews.com. Previously, Lucia was the director of digital content at FOX61 News in Connecticut and has previously written for outlets including ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco from a little-understood period of human evolution may help scientists resolve a long-standing mystery: Who came before us? Three jawbones, including one from a child, ...

Fossils nearly three-quarters of a million years old, discovered in North Africa, may belong to a common ancestor of Neanderthals, Denisovans and modern humans that lived shortly before the three ...