The search for extraterrestrial life in this vast universe needs all hands on deck. A crowd-sourced project from UC Berkeley ...

Large language models have grown so vast and complex that even the people who build them no longer fully understand how they work. A single modern ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

Scientists have successfully created DNA with more than four base pairs—and it works. This video explains how and why that ...

The United States is stepping back from the most direct test yet of possible alien biology on Mars just as new telescopes and ...

By studying large language models as if they were living things instead of computer programs, scientists are discovering some ...

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Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose bestselling books about the extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations ...

While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.

N ASA is considering bringing four astronauts back to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) early due to an ...