After comments about extraterrestrials sparked online debate, the former US president clarified that while the universe may statistically support life beyond Earth, he found no evidence of alien ...

A new estimate of the number of habitable planets orbiting the most common type of stars in our galaxy could have huge consequences for the search for life. According to a recent study, tens of ...

Life’s origin story just became even more mysterious. Using mathematics and information theory, Robert G. Endres of Imperial College London found that the spontaneous emergence of life from nonliving ...

Bryn Glover gives a negative assessment of the likelihood of life elsewhere in the universe. This is based on a New Scientist article stating the odds of the formation of the last universal common ...

Decades ago, New Scientist ran a feature about Rupert Sheldrake’s hypothesis of morphic resonance, which posits that once something comes into being, recurrence becomes easier. He used crystallisation ...