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

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

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, ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Professor Carol Oliver suggests that time dilation, a cosmic phenomenon, may deter aliens from visiting Earth, as ...