Is the rest of the cosmos a pristine environment awaiting the arrival of humanity’s “post-human” descendants? Or is advanced ...

A biologist specializing in invasive species has partnered with a former Pentagon strategist in pushing NASA to construct a ...

A documentary-style exploration of an enormous alien creature, following its evolution, migration and place within a strange ecosystem.

And if aliens made of different stuff potentially possess consciousness, then why not minds made of silicon, metal, and ...

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope found unusual isotopic signatures in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, suggesting it formed up ...

A nutrition scientist applies metabolism, biology and food science to one of science fiction's oldest questions.

If an alien intelligence were hiding somewhere on Earth, many scientists suspect it might look something like an octopus.Get ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has floated the provocative idea that humans might themselves be alien‑made 'autonomous probes,' built through advanced synthetic biology rather than evolving entirely ...

Octopuses and squids carry the largest nervous systems of any invertebrate, and roughly two-thirds of an octopus’s neurons ...

The author of What I Loved has published a moving memoir drawing on letters and journals documenting the last days of Paul ...

What specifically will this look like? Amodei predicts that, over the next five to ten years, AI will achieve, among other ...