Hydnora is one of the strangest flowering plants ever discovered, a subterranean parasite that survives entirely by draining ...

For generations, artists and science-fiction writers have imagined alien landscapes beneath twin sunsets. The image became ...

The spread of species beyond their native habitat is a human-made environmental change on a global scale. Among vascular plants, over 16,000 species have now permanently settled in foreign countries.

An international research team led by the University of Vienna has produced, for the first time, high-resolution global maps of invasion risk for thousands of alien plant species under current ...

Red dwarfs make up the vast majority of stars in the galaxy. Such ubiquity means they host the majority of rocky exoplanets we've found so far—which in turn makes them interesting for astrobiological ...