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On today’s episode of The Infographics Show, scientists spot something on exoplanet K2-18b that shouldn’t exist without life.

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Scientists suggest that advanced aliens might not have physical bodies, challenging traditional views of extraterrestrial ...

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Project Hail Mary, Solaris, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy are all among the very best sci-fi books set in space.

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

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There’s no data to suggest that aliens exist. However, if we believed they existed and came to Earth, our planet would offer ...

A speculative dive into alien worlds filled with strange creatures, unfamiliar ecosystems and believable evolutionary ideas.

That sharp, briny smell is not the salt, it is a gas made by life, breathed out by tiny ocean creatures too small to see. For ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has floated the provocative idea that humans might themselves be alien‑made 'autonomous probes,' built through advanced synthetic biology rather than evolving entirely ...