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The discovery of extraterrestrial beings -- be they slimy microbes or little green men -- would dramatically change the way we humans view our place in the universe. But would it shatter religion? Well, that depends on w...

A NASA astronaut living and working on the International Space Station captured an incredible image of Typhoon Vongfong brewing in the Western Pacific.

In 2010, scientists discovered that simple peptides can organize into bi-layer membranes. The finding suggests a "missing link" between the pre-biotic Earth's chemical inventory and the organizational scaffolding essenti...

@astro_reid (Reid Wiseman ‏) Oct 9 #SuperTyphoon #Vongfang - I've seen many from here, but none like this....

This MERIS (MEdium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer) false colour image spectacularly shows the contrast between the snow covered mountain tops of the southern Himalaya of Nepal and the plains of Northern India....

I have been known, over the course of the past few years, to post pictures of the odd cloud or two. And I do mean odd. Sometimes they're photos I've taken myself (and some of which have been very difficult to identify), ...