Early cinema depicted aliens as human-like for familiarity and practical reasons, but modern science fiction explores ...

When astrobiologists are asked what aliens might look like, many now point not to distant galaxies but to some of the strangest corners of Earth, where researchers on several continents are using ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life.

For generations, science fiction has imagined what life might look like on other worlds. Novelist H.G. Wells described nightmarish squid-like Martian invaders in The War of the Worlds, while the ...