"Extremophile" bacteria could survive asteroid impacts that are strong enough to launch them into space, suggesting that life could travel between planetary bodies.

I don’t know how likely extraterrestrial life might be. But no matter what, the truth of Christianity will stand. This is how strange our times are: Last week, two United States presidents engaged the ...

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

There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember. ” Richard Feynman’s reflection lingers because it feels personal.

Scientists simulated an asteroid impact, and Deinococcus radiodurans’ cell membranes made it through. This suggests that life ...

Infused with the DNA of Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange” (1971), “Heel” is an uneasy study of subjugation and transformation.

Friday’s exuberant horror comedy “Cold Storage” involves long-hidden alien matter that mutates in seconds to not so comically explode into a zillion ever-expanding bits that could destroy all ...

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

Diana Walsh Pasulka, a historian of religions, seeks the patterns that ufology shares with other 'official' beliefs. In 'The Believers,' she documents her research. If no extraterrestrial has ...

Two naturally mummified individuals buried roughly 7,000 years ago in a Libyan rock shelter have yielded ancient genomes that reveal a previously unknown, long-isolated North African lineage. The ...

Every year, the College of Natural Sciences invites faculty, staff and students to send in the most striking and fascinating ...

An expert on genetic genealogy has said that DNA collected from Nancy Guthrie’s property will help law enforcement find the person responsible for the disappearance of the 84-year-old mother of Today ...