In a new study, scientists analyzed how a biological battle played out between a strain of E. coli and a T7 bacteriophage, ...

For more than half a century, some of Earth’s strangest fossils looked like they had washed in from an alien world. Pillow-shaped impressions, quilted fronds and ribbed disks sat in museum drawers, ...

All of this was packaged into a documentary released last year by the noted filmmaker Dan Farah, “ The Age of Disclosure ,” ...

Based on our understanding of how fossils are formed, the Ediacara Biota shouldn’t still be around for us to look at today.

The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows. The complex precursors to biological molecules can form spontaneously in interstellar space, according ...

High-energy particles zipping through the cosmos are harmful to life on Earth, but scientists think it could be food for potential alien life elsewhere. Saturn's moon Enceladus (shown here in a 2006 ...

Even the tiniest discoveries can have outsized significance, a worm in a salty lake hints at life yet to be found.

The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and Falling Skies are all underrated science fiction TV shows that deserve more credit and ...

It's Saturday! This week, in an eminently practical analysis of the Boltzmann brain conjecture, physicists put constraints on ...

Hungarian biologist Tibor Gánti is an obscure figure. Now, more than a decade after his death, his ideas about how life began ...

Researchers across biology, philosophy, and AI are split on what counts as a mind—and whether today’s systems qualify.

We recently discussed the different types of worlds that the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is expected to find that ...