The parasitic wasp’s abdomen boasts a set of flappy paddles lined with thin bristles, resembling “a small bear trap attached ...

Modern-day parasitoids in the same superfamily—Chrysidoidea—include cuckoo wasps (which, as their name suggests, lay their eggs in the nests of their hosts) and bethylid wasps (which paralyze their ...

A study suggests planets in white dwarf habitable zones could sustain life for billions of years through key biological ...

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To decide on the location of the Great Filter (or collection of Lesser Filters), we don’t have a lot of evidence to go on.

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The Extremely Large Telescope under construction in Chile's Atacama Desert could detect signs of alien life on other planets ...

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If venusian clouds contain life, it will be very different than what we know. But terrestrial analogs might still give us ...

The donor-funded project aims to scan the entire night sky, all the time, to search for the presence of alien life. Before we dive deeper into aliens and why they might be aiming lasers at Earth ...

But decades later, the discovery of thousands of worlds beyond our solar system has breathed new life — and billion-dollar stakes — into the overlooked idea. The search is on for habitable alien ...