Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be ...

A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

Baker’s yeast isn’t just useful in the kitchen — it may also be built for space. Researchers found that yeast cells can ...

We may have detected Martian life 50 years ago.

The tallest cliff in the solar system is so extreme that even imagining standing on its edge is enough to make your stomach ...

Ultimately, the gel-first hypothesis does not claim to provide a definitive answer to the origin of life. Rather, it offers a conceptual framework—one that integrates soft-matter physics, systems ...

For decades, scientists have searched the skies for signs of extraterrestrial technology. A study from EPFL asks a sharp question: if alien signals have already reached Earth without us noticing, what ...

Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

Dark matter is a type of matter that is predicted to make up most of the matter in the universe, yet it is very difficult to ...

Former US President Barack Obama said he’s seen no evidence that aliens have made contact with Earth, clarifying his position ...

Bill Maher is worried about what extraterrestrial visitors would think of humanity if the first person they encountered from Earth was President Donald Trump. Speaking on his Club Random podcast, the ...