After a two week expedition off the coast of Brazil, an international team of researchers discovered 31 new marine species, ...

NPR's Scott Simon asks Kathleen Rooney about her book, "Man Overboard!," and about finding the energy to overcome doubt.

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A Harvard University cosmologist who has suggested alien life forms could be sailing into the solar system disguised as meteors is leading the Trump administration’s secretive new scientific advisory ...

A polarizing Harvard astronomer known for splashy theories about alien visits has been tapped by the Trump administration to ...

Avi Loeb, a Harvard astronomer who has made headlines with his theories about alien encounters, will lead a White House ...

When putting together a big cast of Hollywood elites, the trick is finding a variety of famous people who don’t immediately make sense together but all fill different buckets. Whether it’s The White ...

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Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life. Tardigrades—a type of invertebrate ...

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new picture of how life on Earth – and elsewhere – may have begun ...