The tantalizing prospect of inspecting a mysterious monolith on the surface of Mars moon Phobos was proposed earlier this ...

With each passing season, ‘Resident Alien’ has proven that it is one of the most delightfully unhinged sci-fi comedies on television. Season 3 doubled down on everything that makes the show work, ...

What could we be looking at?

K2-18b is one of the most promising worlds for the search for extraterrestrial life, so astronomers conducted an unusually ...

Former Pentagon UFO investigator Luis Elizondo claims the US government possesses unreleased photographs showing what appear ...

A Soviet astronomer in the 1960s proposed a scale to classify hypothetical alien civilizations. Here’s why the framework is ...

Scientists have identified new clues that could help astronomers spot one of the most famous hypothetical alien ...

Experts suspect this space rock is a piece of the lunar surface torn off by a meteor impact, so it could be a time capsule ...

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This article contains spoilers for the film Disclosure Day. As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters of the Third ...

Octopuses, bees, and dogs all process information differently. Even within the narrow confines of one planet, evolution produced a wide range of nervous systems rather than a single design. A new ...