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

Outside of the movies, it’s hard to find something more beloved within the Alien franchise than the 2014 video game Alien: ...

For more than a century, popular culture has trained us to picture extraterrestrials as bug-eyed, bipedal “little green men” who look suspiciously like us in rubber suits. The scientists who actually ...

12 years is a long wait to play the sequel to one of your favourite games of all time. During that decade-plus stretch, I’ve re-played the original Alien: Isolation multiple times, analysed its ...

Early cinema depicted aliens as human-like for familiarity and practical reasons, but modern science fiction explores ...

Grain-sized remnants of alien technology may get caught in solar wind and land on plants and moons close to us ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tardigrades—a type of invertebrate also known as water bears—are the only animals observed to survive the intense radiation and ...