Alien: Earth star, Timothy Olyphant, reveals that Season 2 will take the story for the prequel series' next chapter in a very ...

New research suggests that alien radio signals may be transformed by plasma from their home stars — and scientists on Earth ...

Beneath the surface lies an alien ocean packed with bizarre survival strategies, terrifying hunters, and creatures unlike ...

Researchers propose turning a future NASA moon base into a quarantine station that would screen space samples before they ever reach Earth.

A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about ...

As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters ...

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

Tibrina Hobson / Caplan is perhaps best known for her roles as Janis Ian in the 2004 classic Mean Girls and Virginia E ...

Beneath the icy silence of Antarctica's famous Dry Valleys lies a world so unusual that it often resembles another planet.

The deep ocean is home to one of the strangest phenomena on Earth: bioluminescence. Scientists estimate that more than 75% of ...

A new exoplanet model screens rocky worlds by their ability to retain atmospheres over geologic timescales, helping narrow ...

A study suggests that stellar plasma may distort alien signals, complicating SETI's search for extraterrestrial life by ...