Researchers across biology, philosophy, and AI are split on what counts as a mind—and whether today’s systems qualify.

The sheer scale of Carrazco-Gaxiola’s survey, titled “An All-Sky Spectroscopic Reconnaissance of More Than 2,100 K Dwarfs ...

Language and radio signals may not matter to aliens. Instead, they might be using patterns to leave a biological fingerprint.

Yet another satellite megaconstellation is in the works, this one from Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin. The Washington-based ...

The Washington-based company just scored a $52.5 million contract to deorbit satellites for the U.S. Space Force, the first ...

For decades, astronomers have chased fleeting hints that something alive might be lurking beyond Earth, only to watch each ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

Scientists found that microgravity fundamentally slows the infection cycle, pushing phages to become hyper-efficient at binding to hosts.

After eons underground, it was discovered by accident. Within a couple of decades, it was already under threat.

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

New method reveals chemical signs of early microbial life in ancient Earth rocks, showing photosynthesis evolved much earlier ...