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Parallel universes are a non-answer to a premature question.

Colonizing the galaxy is the highest good humanity could achieve.

What is it good for?

Why this rabbi’s religious beliefs can bend with science.

This woman has the best job in the inner solar system.

The chemistry of life is an extension of the chemistry of the Earth.

Our recent article “Is Physical Law an Alien Intelligence?” stirred up quite a response.

Finding life on other worlds will help answer lingering questions about natural selection.

Our estimates for the prevalence of life in the universe depend on how quickly it arose on Earth.

SETI Institute artists are being inspired by our search for alien life.

Harvard astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger has spent her career looking for life among the stars.

Almost in spite of themselves, scientists are driven to a teleological view of the cosmos.