The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

A routine stop at a local bait store turned wild when a mantis shrimp—nicknamed the “alien of the ocean”—decided to fight back. With lightning-fast reflexes and a punch powerful enough to break glass, ...

There are some twists in the legal battle to save the Aravalli Hills. In a surprise development, on 20 November, the Supreme Court accepted a special committee’s definition that only hills above a 100 ...

In July, researchers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System survey telescope in Chile made an exceedingly rare discovery: a mysterious object passing through the solar ...