We are not alone in the universe and aliens are likely to look just like us, new research suggests. This is because boffins say that humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the "natural ...

For decades, many scientists have relied on the "hard steps" model to suggest that intelligent life is rare — the improbable result of a series of unlikely evolutionary leaps. But new research by ...

New theory proposes that humans — and analogous life beyond Earth — may represent the probable outcome of biological and planetary evolution UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Humanity may not be extraordinary ...

For nearly 40 years, the SETI Institute, a nonprofit research organization in Mountain View, has been searching for intelligent life forms beyond Earth. A philanthropic gift of $200 million, announced ...

Extraterrestrial life could have passed through its own technological singularity long ago, meaning that our universe could be dominated by artificial life-forms. When you purchase through links on ...

How the same region of the Universe would look in terms of the amount of stars for different values of the dark energy density. Clockwise, from top left, no dark energy, same dark energy density as in ...

Imagine if the genetic deck had been shuffled slightly differently as some of the earliest life forms began their evolutionary paths. Might a creature just as smart as us -- or even smarter -- have ...

The Jan. 2 Health & Science article “Yes, the truth is out there. It just may, or may not, feature aliens” focused on radio waves and overlooked another promising channel of communication: neutrinos — ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth. Humanity may not ...