The curious minds at What If reveal a planet scientists found that could host alien life, exploring atmosphere, water, and potential biology.

Language and radio signals may not matter to aliens. Instead, they might be using patterns to leave a biological fingerprint.

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

Saving the world grand strategy-style.

For decades, astronomers have chased fleeting hints that something alive might be lurking beyond Earth, only to watch each ...

Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets.

Meet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens   How large is a large language model? We now coexist with machines so vast ...

Ahead of the launch of Artemis II, the first crewed mission to the moon in more than 50 years, astronauts share the movies ...

Trees play a central role in life on Earth. They store CO₂, provide habitats for animals, fungi, and insects, stabilize soils ...

How large is a large language model? Think about it this way. In the center of San Francisco there’s a hill called Twin Peaks from which you can view nearly the entire city. Picture all of it—every ...

A recent study suggests that late M-stars, despite their abundance in the galaxy and potential for hosting detectable Earth-like planets, are unlikely to support the emergence of complex animal life.

If a Galactic Internet is out there, we may be like fish swimming through the ocean, unaware of the undersea cables carrying vast streams of information around us. The data may be flowing right past ...