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Award winning duo James S. A. Corey show humanity’s struggle with staggering alien power in their latest installment of the ...

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In these science fiction books, extraterrestrial beings are sympathetic, horrifying and everything in between.

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An international research team led by the University of Vienna has produced, for the first time, high-resolution global maps of invasion risk for thousands of alien plant species under current ...

Science fiction is full of alien species, but some are built with a level of detail that goes far beyond the norm. In this video, we explore one of the most fully realized alien concepts in the genre.

In recent years, a surprisingly large number of alien species have managed to flourish in Svalbard. In 2024, common meadow rue, Thalictrum flavum ,was identified for the first time in Svalbard, in ...

An infographic showing the average declines in abundance of key terrestrial insect groups due to invasive alien species. The extent of declines varies across species and regions. Insects are often ...

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...