More than 2,500 plant species have the potential to invade the Arctic at the expense of the species that belong there. Norway is one of the areas that is particularly at risk.

A lot of people think of plants as pretty to look at, but defenceless and passive as far as organisms go. However, the many alien species – or “monster plants” – around us show we should never ...

The idea of discovering and studying alien life has tantalized scientists for centuries. Astronomers have been studying planets in the “Goldilocks Zone” — a distance from a sun in which water on a ...

A MIND-boggling discovery has left scientists even more puzzled about one of the most mysterious fossils ever found. A 47-million-year-old plant fossil, first unearthed in Utah’s Green River Formation ...