The Harvard astrophysicist has devoted years—and thousands of interviews—to the idea that mysterious objects streaking ...

The “Wow!” signal is one of our best pieces of evidence for aliens, but researchers are building a compelling case for a more ...

Some frogs have evolved features so strange that scientists struggle to explain them, and a few look less like amphibians ...

A planet with twice Earth's gravity produces creatures with different skeletal requirements, different muscular architecture, ...

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

A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about where you live than about what consciousness really requires.

Alien life would not be random monster fiction, but shaped by evolution, gravity, light, water, and survival pressure. On red ...

A column by Winona LaDuke, an Ojibwe writer and economist on Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation. She also is co-curator of ...

Octopuses, bees, and dogs all process information differently. Even within the narrow confines of one planet, evolution produced a wide range of nervous systems rather than a single design. A new ...

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

A biologist specializing in invasive species has partnered with a former Pentagon strategist in pushing NASA to construct a ...

For decades, the question of whether life exists beyond Earth has been the domain of science fiction writers and late-night ...