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 ...

The octopus is one of the strangest animals ever to evolve. With 500 million neurons—most of them located in its eight arms ...

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

Is the rest of the cosmos a pristine environment awaiting the arrival of humanity’s “post-human” descendants? Or is advanced ...

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

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

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

From mosquitoes to bed bugs, parasites have always stuck close to humanity, and they continue to shape our lives to this day, ...

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 ...