No one knows exactly what to expect if we encountered other forms of alien life. Would they talk like us? Look like us? Or ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

The mystery around these sorts of mushrooms illustrates the value in conserving and researching natural wonders like them.

Pluribus Season 1 presents a fascinating sci-fi mystery and leaves viewers with plenty of questions heading into Season 2.

In many Western contexts, organized religion is declining, often due to hypocrisy, politicization or shallow faith. But ...

The key idea behind our framework is that life produces molecules with purpose, while nonliving chemistry does not. Cells ...

In the year 1998 – when Bill Clinton was president, most households still had landline phones, and CNN’s website looked like this – Gallup and USA Today called up 1,055 Americans on those landlines ...

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

Want to be a top notch candidate for hosting alien life? Then there's a few key requirements you should be aware of: Ideally, you're a large object like a moon or a planet; scientists suspect you also ...

We’ve likely had at least one close encounter of the 3I kind before. Harvard scientist Avi Loeb claims that not only does 3I/ATLAS potentially have alien origins, but that this wouldn’t be the first ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...