A fishing trip of the California coast last week produced an extraordinary catch: a type of octopus that constructs its own shell to ride ocean currents.

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A rare visitor from another star system prompted SETI to hunt for alien technology, but the mysterious object appears to be a ...

Two men in Russia filmed what looked like a frozen alien body lying in the snow, complete with a large head, dark eyes, and ...

The sentiment that we know more about space than we do about the depths of our oceans has been debated for many years. Though it’s not completely true, it cannot be disputed that both the depths of ...

Polygon Summer Game Fest 2026 Live game reveals, world premiere trailers, and what’s next from 40+ developers, publishers, and hardware makers. Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 is a co-op shooter where you ...

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Sega and Creative Assembly have finally officially revealed Alien: Isolation 2 with a new trailer at Summer Game Fest 2026. While the trailer stops short of announcing a release date or even a release ...

Nearly 1,800 meters beneath the surface of the Pacific, a remotely operated submersible was creeping along the slope of a Galápagos seamount when its camera caught a tiny, dark blue octopus perched in ...

While on a deep-sea expedition in the Galapagos in 2015, scientists found a golf-ball sized, short-armed blue octopus. In a recent study, they confirmed that it’s new to science. The newly described ...

Every state harbors secrets. Here are 50 of the strangest mysteries from around the country—and why we may never learn the ...