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A photograph taken by a NASA astronaut has sparked fears it shows an extraterrestrial creature, but it’s just a photo of a potato.

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A new catalog of potentially habitable exoplanets provides the framework for future observations in the search for alien life ...

Astronomers have discovered an additional 100 new worlds in data collected by NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS, ...

In 'Project Hail Mary,' a human and an alien figure out how to cooperate across space. In real life, we can't see that fellow ...

The scientific wonderers at What If examine how various alien environments across the Kepler system would physically transform a person.

A growing number of U.S. college instructors are turning to oral exams to help combat an AI crisis in higher education.

Humanity’s Last Exam (HLE) puts artificial intelligence LLMs to the test with 2,500 expert-level academic questions spanning ...