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

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In the book version of “Project Hail Mary,” author Andy Weir, known for grounding his fiction in plausible science, describes ...

God and aliens are having a moment. But what do Christianity and other faiths really teach about ETs?

Octopuses, bees, and dogs all process information differently. Even within the narrow confines of one planet, evolution produced a wide range of nervous systems rather than a single design. A new ...

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...

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

The Xenomorph is obviously the star of the show in 20th Century's Alien franchise, but after playing the prologue of Alien: Isolation 2 at Summer Game Fest, I found myself unexpectedly excited not by ...

Explore ancient mysteries and theories about alien involvement in ancient civilizations, from the Nazca lines to Puma Punku. Coffee found to have startling effect on aging, says new study He was ...

On May 22, 2026, the Pentagon released a second batch of previously classified photos and videos showing what appear to be unexplained flying objects. These file dumps were the culmination of a ...

A Sydney scientist has unearthed critical evidence about the oldest-known complex life forms in the universe, parsed from slabs of Australian mudstone which preserved the bodies of organisms that ...

Deep beneath the ice of Antarctica sits a lake that looks less like Earth and more like Mars. NASA scientists expected nothing more than frozen silence. Instead, they found a body of water with oddly ...