627 million km (390 million mi) from Earth, underneath the cold seas of Europa, a horrifying, and vastly intelligent creature lurks. Can our human minds even comprehend such an alien creature? It ...

The four faculty that assembled to explore artificial general intelligence represent multiple disciplines across UC San Diego, a public research university that prioritizes cross-collaboration.

In fact, more people have walked on the Moon than have visited the deepest parts of our oceans. In this world of constant ...

Could these slithery ocean dwellers really be from outer space?

Octopuses break so many biological expectations that scientists still struggle to explain how they ended up this way through normal evolution. From how their brains work to how their bodies heal, ...

There’s no denying the allure of alien artifacts. Science fiction is awash in the material remnants of extraterrestrial civilizations, which surface in everything from the classic books of Arthur C.

Octopus is back on the policy menu for Washington state lawmakers. A bill to outlaw the sale, possession, transport and distribution of farmed octopus advanced out of the House Agriculture and Natural ...

While most people are worried about artificial intelligence-driven robots, a University of Oxford biologist says its octopuses that are actually the creatures most likely to take over the world. That ...

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

A British man in the Philippines unknowingly handled one of the deadliest animals in the world on Wednesday. Andy McConnell was vacationing in the Philippines when he stumbled across a blue-ringed ...