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

Scientists propose building a lab on the moon to screen Mars and other space samples for alien microbes before they ever ...

Two scientists want NASA to build a quarantine lab for alien germs on the Moon, rather than on Earth. The pair, ...

A biologist specializing in invasive species has partnered with a former Pentagon strategist in pushing NASA to construct a ...

Emily Blunt and Josh O'Connor race around the Midwest trying to expose UFOs in a hectic adventure that lacks intelligent life.

Polygon Summer Game Fest 2026 Live game reveals, world premiere trailers, and what’s next from 40+ developers, publishers, and hardware makers. Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 is a co-op shooter where you ...

The SETI Institute is the latest to confirm what scientists have long suspected: the interstellar 3I/ATLAS comet is not an alien spaceship.

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life. Tardigrades—a type of invertebrate ...

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 ...

When Neil deGrasse Tyson was 9 years old, he visited the Hayden Planetarium for the first time. Growing up gazing into light pollution in the Bronx, he had no idea there were that many stars. “I was ...

A “UFO metal” once rumored to defy gravity has finally been analyzed, and the truth behind this mysterious fragment is far more down to Earth than expected. For decades, the peculiar shard occupied a ...

That was the reaction inside the Dreamscape Learn Lab at St. Charles Community College — where biology students aren’t just reading about cells in a textbook. They’re stepping inside them. The ...