Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got ...

Are we alone in the Universe? With more than 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe and at least 500 billion planets ...

What would aliens actually look like? While simple life forms like bacteria may be common in the universe, complex ...

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For your extraterrestrial viewing needs, Stacker ranked the top 30 alien movies, according to their IMDb user rating.

When Neil deGrasse Tyson was 9 years old, he visited the Hayden Planetarium for the first time. Growing up gazing into light pollution in the Bronx, he had no idea there were that many stars. “I was ...

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

For generations, science fiction has imagined what life might look like on other worlds. These aliens are fictional, sure, but some of them are informed by real evolutionary processes on Earth. That’s ...