A lot of the alien races in the Star Trek universe are humanoid, and the original series explained that fact way back in the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Modern astrobiology suggests that alien life would not evolve randomly, but under the same ruthless evolutionary pressures that shaped life on Earth. Scientists expect traits like symmetry, vision, ...

A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about ...

By studying Earth's toughest microbes and complex animal "speech", scientists are reshaping how we search for – and may someday talk to – alien life.

For generations, science fiction has imagined what life might look like on other worlds. These aliens are fictional, sure, but some of them are informed by real evolutionary processes on Earth. That’s ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life. Tardigrades—a type of invertebrate ...