A small group of distant worlds may hold the clues to life beyond Earth. Astronomers searching for life beyond Earth have narrowed down the most promising places to look. Out of more than 6,000 known ...

Perhaps the reason Project Hail Mary hits the spot in the spring of 2026 is that novelist Andy Weir, who wrote the 2021 novel on which its based as well as the book The Martian, is fundamentally an ...

When Ryan Gosling interacts on screen with his alien buddy, which he does for more than half of “Project Hail Mary,” he wasn’t staring at a green screen as cameras rolled. I ...

Problems of the natural world can be addressed through, and only through, mastery and cooperation might seem like a truism, ...

Brothers in Law is a recurring series by brothers Akhil and Vikram Amar, with special emphasis on measuring what the Supreme Court says against what the Constitution itself says. For more content from ...

What would life look like if humans were the ones getting adopted? That’s the delightfully strange idea behind “Me, The Family Pet?” by Jejo S., a comic series that imagines a world where aliens keep ...

Geoffrey Wood receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Pet Trust, and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. University of Guelph provides funding as ...

The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we dive into fascinating ideas from around the universe. You can sign up for Lost in Space-Time here. Modern physics ...

Imagine being scooped up by an alien family and instantly treated like a household pet. That’s the wonderfully weird (and weirdly relatable) premise of “Me, The Family Pet?” by artist Jejo S. In this ...

President Donald Trump said he will direct the release of government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life and unidentified aerial phenomena, saying there is "tremendous interest" in the ...

Over hundreds of thousands of years, humans somehow evolved a type of intelligence found nowhere else in the animal kingdom, at least on Earth. According to the most famous theory describing the ...

Humans have a long relationship with animals. They have provided us with transportation, physical labor, sensory services, food, entertainment, comfort, and emotional support. Our bond with animals is ...