The search for extraterrestrial life has evolved from philosophy to a serious scientific and national security concern ...

If humanity ever makes contact with an intelligent extraterrestrial civilization, we will have no shortage of questions.

Scientists are searching some of Earth’s oldest rocks for tiny fossils that could reveal how simple microbial life made the ...

Explore 100 mind blowing evolution facts that make Earth feel totally alien. Discover bizarre life forms, genetic quirks, and ...

Earth’s neighbor still has secrets that science is trying to figure out, and one of them is potential signs of life.

After decades of secrecy, stigma, and sometimes silliness—like the conspiratorial tales about recovered spacecraft and alien remains at a place known as Area 51 in Nevada—the government has at long ...

The White House’s controversial Aliens.gov portal dehumanises undocumented non-US citizens by blurring the boundaries between the term “illegal aliens”, or unauthorised residents, and ...

In searches for past and present Martian life, some scientists say we’ve been too cautious to see what’s right in front of us ...

ALMA's DV-59 antenna in the foreground with multiple other antennas observing the sky in a night dominated by the Moon.ALMA / Alex Pérez / CC BY 4.0 Astronomers might be hunting for alien signals in ...

Nobody expected the news to break so dramatically, but on an ordinary Tuesday, NASA announced the first unambiguous detection of alien life signals from a distant exoplanet. The excitement ...

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