A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about ...

First time viewers of praying mantises might wonder what planet it calls home and whether or not its bite is fatal. Gardeners ...

Fire & Ash' hits Disney+, we delve into the jungles of Pandora to learn about three of the Avatar series’ coolest alien creatures.

New Guardian recruits are wanted in the war against alien bugs. Get another look at Guardians Planetfall in this latest ...

So if you’re needing your alien fix this week, here are the five best alien movies worth adding to your Netflix watchlist. It ...

These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial life.

It is often suggested that anyone who finds one of these invasive worms should kill it (carefully). Here's what else to know.

Science fiction stories about “alien” invaders are often political allegories for anxieties around immigration. Now, a government website depicts non-citizens as extraterrestrials.

Does the CIA have its own “Men in Black”? Apparently, the government isn’t disclosing everything it knows about UFOs. A whistleblower has accused the CIA of attempting to use sites like 23andMe and ...

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new picture of how life on Earth – and elsewhere – may have begun ...

From a podcast studio in London this week, an 89‑year‑old physicist with long-standing CIA links calmly told his host that US insiders believe the government has recovered 'at least four types' of ...

Movies that center on the battles fought by members of the military certainly have their place, but sometimes it's more fun to see what (albeit, fictional) soldiers might do against an alien combatant ...