The curious minds at What If explore whether a specific exoplanet could potentially host alien life, considering atmosphere, ...

Our search for extraterrestrial life has turned up empty, perhaps because technologically advanced civilizations are doomed ...

Planet K2-18b, an apparent water world 124 light years away, has been seen as a promising location in the search for aliens, ...

Scientists tested whether microbes can survive the shock of a planetary impact and found some may endure the violent launch into space.

Ridley Scott intended for Prometheus to be a completely separate tale from his horror classic Alien, but he also knows why ...

Could alien signals have already reached Earth undetected? - If advanced alien civilisations exist and have contacted Earth, they are more likely rare, scientists say ...

The curious minds at What If land on Proxima Centauri b and explore its alien environment, revealing climate, terrain, and habitability.

A convert to Catholicism, Thigpen wrote prolifically on saints, the Blessed Mother, and the possibility of intelligent alien ...

One Starfleet Academy actor is explaining why a supposedly aquatic alien race was only shown in human form during the wedding ...

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

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 ...