Science Fiction often shows us aliens who look much like humans, and suggest this is a result of convergent evolution to useful traits. But is such convergence to the human form or mind likely with ...

Loss of a sense of self-identity, delusions of self-identity and experiences of 'alien control' are all ... independent associations and convergent co-evolution reveals that symbiosis has been ...

The mimic octopus (Thaumoctopus mimicus), discovered only in 1998, possesses abilities that would make any shapeshifting alien envious ... one of the most sophisticated examples of convergent ...

Astronomers recently announced a tantalizing discovery: using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers detected potential ...

Discovering extraterrestrial life has tantalized the public imagination as far back as Epicurean philosophers in Ancient Greece. Yet despite centuries of speculation, the search for alien ...

Did we actually find signs of alien life on K2-18b? 'We should expect some false alarms and this may be one' — Exoplanet's surface may be covered in oceans, James Webb Space Telescope finds ...

The planet resides in its star's habitable zone, raising the possibility of an ocean world teeming with alien life. K2-18b orbits a star in the constellation Leo and falls within what's called the ...

Could alien life be hiding just 120 light-years away? That’s the question raised by a new study led by Professor Nikku Madhusudhan of the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy.

Although it gave no real indication of how life in fact first evolved, the experiment left astrobiology with a framework for investigating the chemistry of alien worlds. In 1975, the first Mars ...

This hole might lead to underground caves. Scientists think these caves could hold alien life. The US Geological Survey has mapped many potential cave entrances. NASA plans to explore these pits ...

Scientists have found further evidence of possible biosignature gases on the nearby exoplanet K2-18b, strengthening the case that it could support alien life. In 2023, researchers using NASA's ...