This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Tech companies are claiming machines more intelligent than us and capable of having their own agendas are just around the ...

It took more than a century for researchers to prove that Neanderthals were actually quite intelligent and that they ...

An alien virus creates a hive mind. But the story is how the survivors fail to unite—revealing human cooperation's fragile ...

The goal should be a new golden rule linking the search for life elsewhere to the spread of life beyond the bounds of Earth.

The potential for sending payloads and people to Mars is therefore becoming plausible in a way that it never has before. Mars ...

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...

The truth is out there — and late President George H.W. Bush apparently knew it — telling a federal official that an alien made contact with humans at a secretive New Mexico air base in 1964, ...

You know how we're all dreaming about living on other planets someday? Well, turns out, to make that happen, we need to get creative with some enclosed ecosystems called biospheres. Enter Biosphere ...

As movies that diagnose the modern condition go, you can't do much better than Yorgos Lanthimos' Bugonia. Lanthimos has always been cold and caustic, proffering oddball metaphors for the absurd state ...