After encountering Meta AI, a man's mental health unraveled. As he lost touch with reality, the chatbot continued to affirm ...

If aliens from space can die and mourn their dead then they likely invented gods to worship. Because they missed their loved ...

Hope is not a soft word in prison. It shapes how people cope with their sentence and it determines whether - and how - they ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 radio signals of ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

Erich von Däniken, who has died aged 90, was among the first writers to suggest that human civilisation, and even human ...

In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible sign of life, known as a potential biosignature, on Mars. The Perseverance rover, which has been exploring a dried-up lakebed for years, found ...

Humans have always been fascinated with space. We frequently question whether we are alone in the universe. If not, what does ...

Among her most ominous forecasts was a warning that World War III would erupt in 2026 — a prediction made more unsettling by ...

New Scientist writers and contributors have chosen their top science-y books, films, TV shows, music, video games and board ...