Exoplanets can exist anywhere around their parent stars, even so close that they evaporate or disintegrate. Even the rocky ones.

"Plato would argue that sex in and of itself is not what true love is. Sex can reach a point where you are in union with that person, where you see behind their appearances and you see behind the flesh and you experience something which is more transcendental."

It's difficult to project a sphere onto a flat, two-dimensional surface. All maps of the Earth have flaws; the same is true for the cosmos.

The latest season of the "Revolutions" podcast blends history with science fiction to tell the story of the Red Planet's rise.

A look inside Mindstate Design Labs' effort to design drugs that reliably produce specific states of mind.

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

"Quantum mechanics and quantum entanglement are becoming very real. We're beginning to be able to access this tremendously complicated configuration space to do useful things."

The Kalam cosmological argument asserts that everything that exists must have a cause, and the "first" cause must be God. Is that valid?

What can drugs teach us about consciousness?

Americans have gone through three historic junctures like what we're witnessing today — and they happen on an uncanny 80-year cycle.

"We're at a very critical point in human history where things are about to change dramatically. One of the beauties of these AI tools is you now can just be anything that you dreamt of being."

How the 40-year-old entrepreneur and media mogul learned from his struggles, and why he believes accountability is the real secret to happiness.

We understand many things about our Universe, and our home within it, extremely well. The number of stars in the Milky Way isn't among them.

Common knowledge says the maximum size of a PDF is as big as 40% of Germany — but that’s a gross underestimate.

Honing your skills as a strategic thinker does more than solve problems as they appear; it can be a fast track to the top.

Bestselling author Seth Godin urges us to rethink our definition of longevity — and to step back and measure what matters.

Networking — not zombie-crunching your job applications — gives you a better chance of getting sourced or referred for a role.

The Multiverse isn't just a staple of science fiction; there's real-life science behind it, too. Here are 10 facts to expand your mind.

How the cult hit sci-fi show imagines a “techno-realist” future.

The first in a series of short stories by the Hugo- and Nebula-winning author that inspired the cult hit "Pantheon."