For all the talk about settling Mars, the Moon, or other extraterrestrial environments, it’s interesting that no one ever seems to mention the fact that reproduction in space has never been attempted.

From an evolutionary standpoint, it’s ruthlessly efficient. The queen collects sperm from multiple drones in one flight, stores it for years, and then spends her life laying up to 2,000 eggs a day.

Former US President Barack Obama said he’s seen no evidence that aliens have made contact with Earth, clarifying his position on extraterrestrials after comments he made in a podcast went viral.

For decades, scientists have searched the skies for signs of extraterrestrial technology. A study from EPFL asks a sharp question: if alien signals have already reached Earth without us noticing, what ...

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

A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

Elon Musk discussed his views on whether aliens exist during a discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Newsweek reached out to Musk’s company SpaceX for additional comment via ...

Well, it was only a matter of time really until this happened. SpaceX owner and founder, Elon Musk, has declared he’s not human – but in fact, he’s an alien. Nope, really. Musk took to the stage at ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when reading this story: Chondrichthyan fishes—a group that includes rays, skates, chimaeras, and sharks—are thought to have energy intensive reproduction cycles due in no ...

Eddy Keming Chen is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California, USA. Mikhail Belkin is a professor of artificial intelligence, data science, ...