The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) revealed a distant planet located 40,000 light-years away using microlensing for the first time.

Teetering near endangered status, the starlet sea anemone produces “an ancient mechanism” for fighting viruses that ...

The idea that octopuses might be aliens emerged from the theory of panspermia (Stelele 2018), according to which life on Earth is not entirely of terrestrial ...

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb has been appointed by the White House to lead a team investigating unidentified anomalous ...

In the book version of “Project Hail Mary,” author Andy Weir, known for grounding his fiction in plausible science, describes ...

A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about where you live than about what consciousness really requires.

The stunning evolution of Supergirl's costume from cheerleader skirts to badass bodysuits proves she's always been ahead of ...

Amanda Lohrey’s 10th novel, Capture, follows a clinical psychologist researching patients who say they have been abducted.

A column by Winona LaDuke, an Ojibwe writer and economist on Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation. She also is co-curator of ...

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...

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Oliver Tree, the eccentric American musician known for viral stunts and alt-pop hits, died in a helicopter crash in Rio de ...