For more than a century, the idea that life might have arrived on our planet from elsewhere in the cosmos sat at the fringes ...

NASA has quietly hit pause on what it billed as its first dedicated hunt for alien biosignatures, reacting to fresh data that ...

Insects are often seen as invaders due to high-profile species like the yellow-legged (Asian) hornet, the harlequin ladybird ...

Large language models have grown so vast and complex that even the people who build them no longer fully understand how they work. A single modern ...

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 ...

Planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune – so called sub-Neptunes – are the most common type of known exoplanet. It ...

"His unconstitutional crusade against me sends a chilling message to every retired member of the military: if you speak out ...

By studying large language models as if they were living things instead of computer programs, scientists are discovering some ...

Mathematics also features in a 1998 novella by Ted Chiang called Story of Your Life, which was adapted into the 2016 film ...

Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose bestselling books about the extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations ...