NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars. Found inside a ...

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

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

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

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

James Gunn promised a DC Universe built on gods and monsters, and the first wave of those monsters is already here. His new continuity does not treat giant creatures as disposable action scenes. It ...

While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.