Deep-sea explorers discovered tiny, jet-black spheres clinging to rocks nearly four miles beneath the Pacific Ocean. These ...

The deep ocean is home to one of the strangest phenomena on Earth: bioluminescence. Scientists estimate that more than 75% of ...

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What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...

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The titanosaur lived in Antarctica, and scientists have just found evidence that was actually discovered over 40 years ago.

Sea stars can produce eggs for up to 200 years. Their surprisingly human-like ovaries may offer clues about fertility and reproductive aging.

With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination with extraterrestrials.

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When I look at the night sky, I don’t wonder whether alien life is somewhere out there; I think it probably is. Considering the sheer number of stars in the cosmos, and the possibly larger number of ...

Scientists describe a baseball bat-size scorpion — the world’s largest — and suggest that the 400 million-year-old creature ...

A 120 million-year-old fossil found in what’s now northwestern China is changing how scientists think about an unusual group of predatory dinosaurs known as microraptors. The location where the fossil ...