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

Is the rest of the cosmos a pristine environment awaiting the arrival of humanity’s “post-human” descendants? Or is advanced ...

A documentary-style exploration of an enormous alien creature, following its evolution, migration and place within a strange ecosystem.

And if aliens made of different stuff potentially possess consciousness, then why not minds made of silicon, metal, and ...

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

Theological debates suggest alien encounters might challenge religious traditionalists more than dismantle faith.

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope found unusual isotopic signatures in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, suggesting it formed up ...

Does consciousness require flesh and blood to exist?Probably not, according to Eric Schwitzgebel, a distinguished professor of philosophy at the ...

The winds on seven hellish alien worlds are moving in the wrong direction. That strange anomaly just cracked open one of ...

By tracking neural crest cells in catshark embryos, researchers discovered that the molecular toolkit behind face-building is ...

A nutrition scientist applies metabolism, biology and food science to one of science fiction's oldest questions.