Scientists suggest that advanced aliens might not have physical bodies, challenging traditional views of extraterrestrial ...

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist having a Eureka moment, realising in a single dramatic instant that Earth is ...

A new exoplanet model screens rocky worlds by their ability to retain atmospheres over geologic timescales, helping narrow ...

The best way to find alien technosignatures is to look for ones that have long survived their creators, according to a new paper.

Alien: Earth star, Timothy Olyphant, reveals that Season 2 will take the story for the prequel series' next chapter in a very ...

New SETI protocols outline how scientists should verify, share, and respond to potential evidence of alien intelligence in the modern information age. Reading time 4 minutes The moment of first ...

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously ...

This is a developing story. The X-Men have faced off against a myriad of beings that are nothing too out of the ordinary for people of their kind. However, the mutants are about to face a vicious ...

A siphonophore—a colonial marine invertebrate related to the venomous stinging Portuguese Man-o-war—is scanned using Deep ...

Somewhere in the Mojave Desert, a gleaming white dome sits in the middle of nowhere, and the story behind it is stranger than ...

Somewhere out there, a planet roughly the size of Earth may be orbiting a distant star in conditions that could support life.