“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor at Pennsylvania State University. “We’re an expected or predictable outcome ...

decades-old “hard steps” theory that intelligent life was an incredibly improbable event on Earth. Are aliens real? The Milky Way could have 40 billion Earth-sized planets, but many ...

According to an alternative model of how intelligent life emerges on planets like Earth, the existence of aliens—and human beings–could be the result of natural planetary processes.

A major plot point in Alien: Romulus is how a hyper-intelligent, purpose-driven android chooses the survivability of the human race over what it means to be human. The android, therefore creates a ...

Although a planet with life and technology similar to ours may be rare, studying how such beings might detect Earth could help advance our own search for intelligent life. As such, a team of ...

According to best-selling author Yuval Noah Harari, "alien intelligence" is a more accurate term for AI than artificial intelligence. See AI anxiety. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY.