Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

For more than a century, the idea that life might have arrived on our planet from elsewhere in the cosmos sat at the fringes ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

Scientists are studying bees’ surprising maths skills to explore whether numbers could be a universal language for communicating with aliens, offering fresh insights into intelligence beyond Earth.

A Huntsville company helped stage experiments on the International Space Station that could aid in the search for life beyond Earth. Teledyne Brown Engineering recently announced the successful ...

Scientists have discovered evidence of large quantities of biosignature chemicals — only known to be made by life on Earth — on an exoplanet more than 100 light-years away. It could be the most ...

A crew of tiny worms will be heading on a mission to the International Space Station in 2026 that will help scientists understand how humans can travel through space safely, using a Leicester-built ...