A mysterious 420-million-year-old ancient life form challenges evolution, defying classification as plant, animal or fungus.

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

Quick, imagine an animal tongue. What came into your mind? The flicking forked tongue of a snake? A cow licking a block of ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

Science fiction often shows aliens with human features like eyes, limbs, and faces. But science has a reason for questioning ...

When you think of Sigourney Weaver, you might picture her exploring psychedelic alien worlds in "Avatar" or transforming into ...

On paper, and clearly to many critics 20 years ago, the second Underworld movie is a downgrade in several respects. Vampire ...

Science fiction at its best isn't always just about spaceships and aliens. While blockbusters give us explosions and invasions, the truly great ones use their f ...

If aliens from space can die and mourn their dead then they likely invented gods to worship. Because they missed their loved ones, and did not wish to die themselves, they invented an afterlife.

PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Monogoto announced today that Monogoto Software-Defined Connectivity Platform has received a 2025 IoT Platforms Leadership Award from IoT Evolution ...

A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 'signals of interest' with the world's largest radio telescope. When you purchase through links on ...

Add independent.com on Google Add the SB Independent as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since their initial discovery 30 years ago, exoplanets have revolutionized our ideas ...