A new James Webb Space Telescope study has identified a very specific wavelength of light missing from both Pluto and ...

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously ...

Somewhere out there, a planet roughly the size of Earth may be orbiting a distant star in conditions that could support life.

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 ...

After more than five years of roaming the desolate and dusty landscapes of the Martian surface, NASA’s Perseverance rover has ...

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 ...

Consciousness, which the duo refers to as a target phenomenon, needs a physical substrate to exist. In the case of ...

Extraterrestrial life is life that may exist and originate outside the planet Earth, the only place in the universe currently known by humans to support life. Its existence is currently purely ...

For decades, humanity has searched the cosmos for proof that we are not alone. Telescopes scanned distant planets. Rovers explored dusty alien landscapes. Scientists developed instruments capable of ...