Scientists suggest that advanced aliens might not have physical bodies, challenging traditional views of extraterrestrial ...

From "Independence Day" to "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", movies and TV shows are packed with advice for anyone aspiring ...

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

Forget water, snow or rain. Deep inside the atmospheres of some giant planets, scientists believe carbon is transformed into diamonds that may literally fall through the sky.

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

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 ...

Does consciousness require flesh and blood to exist?Probably not, according to Eric Schwitzgebel, a distinguished professor of philosophy at the ...

Instead of searching the skies for radio signals, scientists suggest the first evidence of an extinct alien civilisation ...

The best way to find alien technosignatures is to look for ones that have long survived their creators, according to a new paper.

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself resurfaces: if aliens were to arrive on Earth, would they come to conquer us, ...