Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

Discover the latest news, features and articles about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ...

But the real truth is that alien life on other planets could be even stranger than floating balloons or amorphous organisms ...

When we imagine alien life we often picture something radically different from ourselves. But evolution tends to solve similar problems in similar ways, and intelligence may come with predictable ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...