Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the ...

In an age of artificial intelligence, the one thing machines can't replace is original human thought — so why aren't we teaching it? Syed Mustafa Ahmad It is a universally acknowledged truth that the ...

As humanity moves from brief space missions toward longer stays — driven by commercial ambitions for moon bases and eventual Martian settlements — scientists are beginning to confront how the ...

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

This ship was huge. It was like a city-sized ship. And there was hundreds of beings on board,” said Debbie Solaris, a ...

A new psychedelic retreat calling itself a “SETI for the mind” aims to establish two-way communication with the nonhuman entities people encounter while tripping on DMT.

In the movie Hoppers, scientists “hop” human consciousness into animal-like robots to talk to other species. We asked the ...

Hardy bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which our planet was seeded with life.

New research reveals that ancient interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals shaped our modern human DNA - especially on ...

Former United States President Barack Obama has clarified remarks related to the existence of extraterrestrial life made on a podcast, after appearing to claim that he knew aliens are real. During a ...

Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...