In these science fiction books, extraterrestrial beings are sympathetic, horrifying and everything in between.

He claimed his lifelong research suggests alien technology is so advanced it could annihilate the human race in a microsecond ...

What would alien life from another planet be like? But we rarely ask the opposite: What would they think of us?

But the Freakybuttrue Peculiarium and Museum in Portland, Oregon is completely real, completely legal, and completely unlike ...

On "The Benny Show," Gaetz described classified content that he said defied conventional understanding of Earth's technology.

You need to be much more than just lucky or smart to survive an Alien film, and these characters use everything they have to ...

Movies like "Disclosure Day" and "Project Hail Mary" renew our fascination with extraterrestrials and the idea that humankind ...

The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we dive into fascinating ideas from around the universe. You can sign up for Lost in Space-Time here. Modern physics ...

Over hundreds of thousands of years, humans somehow evolved a type of intelligence found nowhere else in the animal kingdom, at least on Earth. According to the most famous theory describing the ...

This video breaks down the difference between convergent and divergent evolution and explains how shared traits can arise in very different ways. Convergent evolution shows how unrelated species can ...

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...