There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember. ” That observation, attributed to ...

All life on Earth depends on DNA—but that doesn’t mean life everywhere must follow the same blueprint. Scientists have shown that alternative genetic molecules, including RNA-based life, synthetic ...

Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

Leathery mascot talks becoming a Spurs fan, skinny-dipping on the River Walk.

Two naturally mummified individuals buried roughly 7,000 years ago in a Libyan rock shelter have yielded ancient genomes that reveal a previously unknown, long-isolated North African lineage. The ...

Aliens exist - they just haven't visited Earth, NASA veteran Dr Gentry Lee has claimed.

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...

Since the dawn of the computer age, researchers have wrestled with two persistent challenges: how to store ever-increasing reams of data and how to protect that information from unintended access. Now ...

We may not have found any definitive proof of extraterrestrial life just yet, despite plenty of hope among scientists. But if we were to ever come to an answer in the form of alien biology or ...

Scientists have discovered that DNA behaves in a surprising way when squeezed through tiny nanopores, overturning a long-held assumption in genetics research. What researchers once thought were knots ...

Gene therapy holds the promise of preventing and curing disease by manipulating gene expression within a patient's cells. However, to be effective, the new gene must make it into a cell's nucleus. The ...

Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor star in the latest alien film from iconic director Steven Spielberg, out June 12. Reading time 1 minute Freshly minted EGOT winner Steven Spielberg has made some of the ...