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 ...

Hidden deep within southern Siberia lies one of the most mysterious places on Earth. At first glance, Lake Baikal looks like ...

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

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

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was a global phenomenon that spawned many knockoffs, with films like Purple People Eater, Badi, ...

A Stanford scientist's model suggests many small rocky planets can't sustain atmospheres, potentially explaining the scarcity ...

Somewhere in the Mojave Desert, a gleaming white dome sits in the middle of nowhere, and the story behind it is stranger than ...

Kris Kneen’s Rite of Spring is a pulsing story that moves energetically across its terrain, delivering a sense of alien ...

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

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

Researchers have looked at how particular microbes from Earth would fare in conditions like those of Mars, the moon, and the ...