For generations, the search for life beyond Earth has focused on avoiding one of science’s biggest mistakes: claiming a ...

This could be why we still haven’t found alien life - Traces left behind by organisms on alien worlds may be too subtle to detect ...

His new alien thriller has shades of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Minority Report,” even “The Post”—but the ...

Her name is Courtney Grace and she carries Steven Spielberg's sci-fi thriller to its emotional climax. She discussed her experience working on the film.

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. In February 1896, when the germ theory of disease was still fairly ...

NASA's hunt for alien life may be undermined by its own instruments, according to a group of leading astrobiologists who warn that current tools and mission designs are likely missing subtle, but ...

Pakistan's prime minister says the United States and Iran have agreed on a final text for a peace deal. Pakistan has been a ...

What if signs of extraterrestrial life already exist — but our technology and methods are simply missing them? Scientists are now warning that “false-negative” results could be shaping the future of ...

You know that feeling when you’re driving through Oregon and suddenly the landscape looks like someone switched the channel ...

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In the following six books, each writer looks to space to skillfully explore what it means to live on Earth. Salvation and ...