The deep ocean is home to one of the strangest phenomena on Earth: bioluminescence. Scientists estimate that more than 75% of ...

If an alien intelligence were hiding somewhere on Earth, many scientists suspect it might look something like an octopus.

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

As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters ...

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself resurfaces: if aliens were to arrive on Earth, would they come to conquer us, ...

Avi Loeb’s White House panel has asked the Pentagon for videos and files on unexplained aerial sightings ...

Some frogs have evolved features so strange that scientists struggle to explain them, and a few look less like amphibians ...

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

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

Discover the astonishing microscopic life thriving beneath Antarctica's icy exterior. A new PBS series reveals the groundbreaking research that could transform our understanding of ecosystems and ...