A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about ...

Imagined planets, ecosystems and creatures show how diverse alien biology could become.

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During the initial analysis of the data recovered from the Scoop 7 satellite, Dr. Ruth Leavitt (Kate Reid) and her colleagues ...

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

Scientists propose a simple but powerful new method for detecting traces of alien biology, whether on Jupiter's icy moons, in ...

Case in point: Scientists from Tokyo University and Hokkaido University in Japan stumbled across some mysterious jet-black ...

There’s no data to suggest that aliens exist. However, if we believed they existed and came to Earth, our planet would offer ...

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

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

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 ...

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