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

Scientists propose building a lab on the moon to screen Mars and other space samples for alien microbes before they ever ...

Is the rest of the cosmos a pristine environment awaiting the arrival of humanity’s “post-human” descendants? Or is advanced ...

Even at this early stage in our spacefaring age, humanity has already begun sending probes that will eventually reach other ...

There is something almost offensive about a sky so full of stars and so empty of company. That is what gives Richard ...

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In ‘Disclosure Day’ the director reflects on how humanity would confront the discovery that we are not alone, something he is increasingly ‘convinced’ of ...

The winds on seven hellish alien worlds are moving in the wrong direction. That strange anomaly just cracked open one of exoplanet science's biggest mysteries.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The group leading the charge in the search for extraterrestrial life has given the all clear: An interstellar comet looks to be completely natural and free of any alien ...

3I/ATLAS may be departing our solar system, but it’s still very much on Avi Loeb’s mind. In a recent blog post, the Harvard astrophysicist noted that the comet emitted an unusual quantity of methane ...

Avi Loeb has revived debate around 3I/ATLAS, the interstellar object that passed through the solar system last year, by suggesting it may have scattered life-building material as it travelled. The ...