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While scouring a 50-million-year-old crater on Mars, the Curiosity rover stumbled upon a polygon-shaped pattern that sort of ...

Searching for alien languages sheds light on how much human languages have in common—with each other and even with animal communication.

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Peer into the water at the tide pools along the Sonoma Coast, and you’ll see what appears to be an alien invasion of bright ...

Author Stephen Graham Jones has summoned fear in the form of everything from an alien caterpillar to zombie wrestlers. He's ...

The San Luis Valley is already one of the strangest places in Colorado, a vast, flat, high-altitude basin ringed by mountains ...

Beyond Artemis II, human spaceflight missions will need longer expiration dates and grow-it-yourself options. Luckily, labs around the world are working on these menus—and invited National Geographic ...

A genuinely spectacular Florida attraction that doesn’t charge you a single penny, and the Florida Botanical Gardens in Largo ...

Sometimes the best family outings don’t involve a three-hour drive or a second mortgage to pay for admission. Bartari in ...