What if an alien species had a complete evolutionary history stretching billions of years? This deep dive explores the ...

Alien director Ridley Scott eventually returned to the franchise, but couldn't complete his ambitious plans. Here's what his ...

There’s no data to suggest that aliens exist. However, if we believed they existed and came to Earth, our planet would offer ...

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb has been appointed by the White House to lead a team investigating unidentified anomalous ...

Theological debates suggest alien encounters might challenge religious traditionalists more than dismantle faith.

A column by Winona LaDuke, an Ojibwe writer and economist on Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation. She also is co-curator of ...

Teetering near endangered status, the starlet sea anemone produces “an ancient mechanism” for fighting viruses that ...

A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about where you live than about what consciousness really requires.

Based on evidence collected by the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have found that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS could ...

A biologist specializing in invasive species has partnered with a former Pentagon strategist in pushing NASA to construct a ...

When I look at the night sky, I don’t wonder whether alien life is somewhere out there; I think it probably is. Considering the sheer number of stars in the cosmos, and the possibly larger number of ...