The curious minds at What If imagine the astonishing scenario of the James Webb Telescope discovering alien life, exploring how this revelation could transform science, society, and our place in the ...

Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

It's not nearly as easy as one might think. The post If Scientists Ever Find Strong Evidence of Alien Life, Communicating It ...

More than 2,500 alien plant species could find suitable conditions in the Arctic, especially in northern Norway and Svalbard.

The race to develop a virtual scientist—an AI creation that conducts every stage of research, from idea to publication—has ...

A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

Imagine discovering life beyond Earth right on a distant exoplanet! In this video, we explore K2-18b, a Super-Earth located 124 light-years away, in the habitable zone of its star. Could this alien ...

In this week's Science for All newsletter, Divya Gandhi explains how the Arctic is at the risk of an invasion of non-native ...

Researchers have catalogued which alien plants may pose a threat to plants in the Arctic. The post Study warns thousands of ...

Cape Town, in South Africa, is famous for its dramatic mountains and coastline, but its greatest treasure lies in the plants that carpet its slopes and valleys. Table Mountain National Park and its ...

Is the scientific method really the best approach to learning about the world? A new paper in Collective Intelligence applies the scientific method to itself, finding that some common strategies that ...

Scientists have finally discovered how amino acids essential for life formed on the 4.6-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu.