A polarizing Harvard astronomer known for splashy theories about alien visits has been tapped by the White House to lead a ...

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously ...

Somewhere out there, a planet roughly the size of Earth may be orbiting a distant star in conditions that could support life.

What happens if scientists find evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence? That question was at the center of a recent SETI Live discussion about newly updated post-detection protocols and how ...

In the book version of “Project Hail Mary,” author Andy Weir, known for grounding his fiction in plausible science, describes ...

After more than five years of roaming the desolate and dusty landscapes of the Martian surface, NASA’s Perseverance rover has come across some of the most intriguing evidence yet of ancient microbial ...

Credit: Gaorong Li and Xiaodong Wang New fossils hint that the roots of complex animal life stretch further back than ...

Octopuses, bees, and dogs all process information differently. Even within the narrow confines of one planet, evolution produced a wide range of nervous systems rather than a single design. A new ...

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...

Consciousness, which the duo refers to as a target phenomenon, needs a physical substrate to exist. In the case of ...

For Steven Spielberg, extraterrestrial life has always meant more than just looking up at the sky. After exploring variations of the topic in Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, E.T. The ...

Steven Spielberg has shut down conspiracy theories that his new UFO blockbuster Disclosure Day was designed to prepare the public for the revelation of extraterrestrial life. For decades, one of the ...