At first glance, the Drake Equation looks like a hopeful scientific tool. In reality, it leads to disturbing possibilities about isolation, extinction, and survival. This breakdown explains the ...

For decades, scientists have searched the skies for signs of alien civilizations. This breakdown looks at why that approach ...

In 1994, the fragments of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet smashed into Jupiter with a force equal to 300 million atomic bombs.

A small population of Lesser Antillean iguanas brought to the Prickly Pear East islet in Anguilla have ballooned into more than 300 lizards ...

Extinction Rebellion is a global environmental movement rebelling against the corporate destruction of a liveable planet.