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Assuming intelligent aliens know how to harvest energy from stars, would humanity be able to spot these high-level structures?

A plantation worker photographed this new genus of mammal in New Guinea, thought to have been dead for 6,000 years.

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

Scientists demonstrated that an Earthly extremophile might withstand being ejected from the Red Planet on debris spewed into ...

Scientists tested whether microbes can survive the shock of a planetary impact and found some may endure the violent launch into space.