According to an alternative model of how intelligent life emerges on planets like Earth, the existence of aliens—and human ...

A new study rewrites the story of human evolution, suggesting that intelligent life is not rare but a natural planetary ...

The Dynamically Stable Large Space Structures via Architected Metamaterials was granted a NIAC award by NASA at the beginning ...

Scientists have argued that the chances of there being intelligent life on other planets isn't quite as unlikely we might ...

Scientists have long overlooked white dwarfs as hosts for habitable exoplanets, assuming their lack of fusion would make life ...

Astronomers have identified sulfur as a potentially crucial indicator in narrowing the search for life on other planets.

High-pressure experiments generated the first direct observation of plastic ice, which has qualities of both crystalline ice and liquid water.

The research proposes that the emergence of humanity on Earth was not as improbable as previously thought, potentially increasing the likelihood of intelligent life existing on other planets.

To solve that problem, a team of German researchers at the Technical University in Berlin figured that, instead of having a ...

Researchers from Penn State University proposed in a new academic paper that human-like lifeforms could arise as a logical consequence of a planet’s development — contradicting the long-held “hard ...