Some wasps are unsettling, and then there are species so extreme that even the scientists who study them reach for words like ...

Earth is home to creatures so strange, beautiful, and bizarre that it’s easy to forget we share the planet with them. These ...

Insects are often seen as invaders due to high-profile species like the yellow-legged (Asian) hornet, the harlequin ladybird ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

"Understanding how spaceflight impacts the human brain is crucial as space exploration and tourism expand," a ...

Scientists looking to understand how to communicate with aliens say that honeybees are the key to achieving the right methods to do so. Bees might be tiny insects that forage through flowers for ...

Scientists have found new evidence suggesting that interstellar 3I/ATLAS is not an alien spaceship, as one conspiracy theory ...

The afternoon I saw Tracy Letts’ excellent, itchy Bug on Broadway – an earlier scheduled performance had been canceled – the ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

Scientists report unusually high Chagas disease parasite rates in kissing bugs collected near the U.S.-Mexico border region.

In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible sign of life, known as a potential biosignature, on Mars. The Perseverance rover, which has been exploring a dried-up lakebed for years, found ...