From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, the third such visitor ever observed, is exhibiting unusual energy and chemical behavior as it ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

In a New York Comic Con panel on Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, Weaver said she had a meeting with Disney, which owns the rights to ...

Big sci-fi adaptations are suddenly everywhere again. Every few years, Hollywood remembers just how good sci-fi novels really ...

For more than a century, popular culture has trained us to picture extraterrestrials as bug-eyed, bipedal “little green men” ...

Is 3I/ATLAS an alien probe? Breakthrough Listen uses the Green Bank Telescope to search for technosignatures as the ...

The Boqiang 3060 was simply passing through, cruising from China to Denmark to help install offshore wind turbines, casually ...

A bizarre ecosystem discovered 3,640 meters deep in the Arctic reveals "frozen reefs" and alien-like life. Learn about this ...

That book is none other than Ursula K. Le Guin's classic novel The Left Hand of Darkness, which is Carol Sturka's (Rhea ...

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer ...

From societies without money to profiteering aliens, the world of Star Trek has more to say about economics than you might ...