The “Wow!” signal is one of our best pieces of evidence for aliens, but researchers are building a compelling case for a more ...

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Researchers propose turning a future NASA moon base into a quarantine station that would screen space samples before they ever reach Earth.

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.

As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters ...

A lot of the alien races in the Star Trek universe are humanoid, and the original series explained that fact way back in the ...

Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

Genetic analysis of Neanderthals in north-western Europe reveals that this population was surprisingly genetically diverse, ...

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

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

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