In celebration of World UFO Day, I asked ChatGPT to give me a scenario where aliens finally make contact with us — and its ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is continuing to have a disruptive impact on ever more parts of humanity. But what does it mean ...

For decades, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has focused on subtle whispers in the cosmic noise, the faint, orderly patterns that might betray a distant civilization. A new line of ...

For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to prepare us for eventual contact with aliens. Their efforts are dominated by several recurrent tropes. There's the invasion by a warlike ...

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...

Earthlings, brace yourselves: the galaxy may be emptier than your last Tinder date. According to a new study, any alien civilizations out there? Probably short-lived — and doomed to fail spectacularly ...