Researchers may have just revealed a new way of looking for alien life — it's based on the idea that it isn't just the type ...

Some animals live in a secret part of the world, hardly detectable by humans. Ants build highways out of scent. Moths follow ...

For decades, the search for life beyond Earth has revolved around a key question: What molecules should scientists be looking ...

New UCR research shows that the search for life beyond Earth could benefit from a statistical approach that prioritizes ...

Until the U.S. government has data or samples of alien material that can be shared, the story of extraterrestrial visitors is ...

An almost unkillable fungal strain isolated from NASA’s ultrasterile clean rooms hints at “critical gaps” in interplanetary ...

Just over 40 years ago, in his novel Contact, astronomer Carl Sagan imagined what it would be like to detect radio signals beamed from other intelligent lifeforms in the galaxy. In the story, these ...

When we imagine alien life, we picture monsters, insects, or tentacles—but what if the most realistic aliens are human-like? Evolution tends to solve the same problems with similar designs, and ...

Alien Day was this past Sunday (April 26), and to celebrate one of the best sci-fi horror franchises of all time, HBO Max has just added the special editions of the first four Alien movies onto the ...

Publisher Sega and developer Creative Assembly have revealed what appears to be a teaser trailer for Alien: Isolation 2. A mysterious video titled "A False Sense of Security" was posted by the ...