A new teaser for FX and Noah Hawley's Sydney Chandler-starring Alien: Earth warns that there's a price to pay for being "More Than Human." ...

By removing the pull of gravity, space has accelerated breakthroughs once thought impossible, reshaping medicine, ...

The first light of the universe was spotted by scientists when looking at the cosmic microwave. The discovery can change ...

This story is the first article of a two-part Mongabay mini-series exploring possible climate futures. Read Part One.

The Silurian Hypothesis asks whether signs of truly ancient past civilizations would even be recognisable today.

This week, tensions continue to rise in American cities like Los Angeles following the deployment of National Guard troops in ...

Today the Arctic is still a site of peril and promise. A new race to the North Pole is under way, as politicians dream of ...

A space rock the color of coal and no larger than a pebble you’d shake from a shoe just arrived at the Field Museum, where scientists will spend the next two months probing this extraordinary specimen ...

Even if we can't see them, microorganisms are everywhere, inextricably linked to life on Earth at every level. They range from pathogenic bacteria and viruses that can make us sick to the microbes ...

It was a simple question asked over lunch in 1950. Enrico Fermi, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped usher in the ...

Irving Greenberg, an acclaimed writer and Orthodox rabbi, has influenced practically every facet of American Jewish life. He ...

Marine plastic pollution is escalating, turning the ocean from a life source into a potential death trap. This problem is ...