The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) revealed a distant planet located 40,000 light-years away using microlensing for the first time.
Thus far, our search for extraterrestrial life points toward Clarke’s former point, suggesting that our little blue dot is ...
Study pinpoints which rocky worlds could hang on to a life-supporting atmosphere ...
Teetering near endangered status, the starlet sea anemone produces “an ancient mechanism” for fighting viruses that ...
The idea that octopuses might be aliens emerged from the theory of panspermia (Stelele 2018), according to which life on Earth is not entirely of terrestrial ...
The octopus is one of the strangest animals ever to evolve. With 500 million neurons—most of them located in its eight arms ...
Exceptionally preserved fossils from China reveal that bryozoans were already thriving during the Cambrian explosion.
Hopefully, we're about to travel back to the moon relatively soon. And while the original "giant leap for mankind" was taken ...
In a new paper, researchers examine the possibility of other consciousnesses that take on forms far beyond our imagination.
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.
A column by Winona LaDuke, an Ojibwe writer and economist on Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation. She also is co-curator of ...