When cinema audiences are discovered sauntering bowlegged down the city streets of Britain this summer, like John Wayne with an over-full nappy, Tim Burton's new Planet Of The Apes will almost ...

The gorilla, our closest living relative after chimpanzees and bonobos, possesses physical strength that has fascinated scientists, conservationists, and nature enthusiasts for generations. These ...

Astronomers announced Thursday that they had detected the most promising "hints" of potential life on a planet beyond our solar system, though other scientists expressed skepticism. There has been ...

Daniel Apai receives funding for astrobiology research from NASA, the Heising-Simons Foundation, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that ...

Gorillas aren't hunting bugs - they're foraging for truffles. A new study uncovers surprising behavior deep in the Congo ...

Despite startling breakthroughs, the first words and signs of great apes are rarely publicly celebrated by scientists.

Now a team of researchers is offering what it contends is the strongest indication yet of extraterrestrial life, not in our solar system but on a massive planet, known as K2-18b, that orbits a ...

More news about our planet: Sign up for USA TODAY's Climate Point newsletter. The exoplanet known as K2-18b was first discovered in 2015 more than 120 light-years from Earth during NASA's planet ...

The Flash's villains are iconic in design and attitude, but the newest look for this classic villain is crazy and adorable.

The planet is about 2.6 times larger and 8.6 times more massive than Earth. Scientists believe it may be a “Hycean” world, a class of planet with hydrogen-rich atmospheres and potential global ...

The two gases - dimethyl sulfide, or DMS, and dimethyl disulfide, or DMDS - involved in Webb’s observations of the planet named K2-18 b are generated on Earth by living organisms, primarily ...