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

Life-forms made of stuff we couldn’t imagine may still be as conscious as we are.

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

For generations, science fiction has imagined what life might look like on other worlds. Novelist H.G. Wells described nightmarish squid-like Martian invaders in The War of the Worlds, while the ...

Where did life on Earth come from? It is one of humanity’s oldest and most fascinating questions. For centuries, people have ...

Emily Blunt, Colman Domingo, and Josh O'Connor share how their perspectives on extra-terrestrials and unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) have changed since working on "Disclosure Day." ...

The best way to find alien technosignatures is to look for ones that have long survived their creators, according to a new ...

Few horror franchises have had the impact of Alien. Over the last four-plus decades, there have been nine movies, several video games and comics, and the hit TV series, Alien: Earth. The films have a ...

Steven Spielberg is in his aliens exist era — but in truth, he’s been there since at least 1977. That’s when the director ...

These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial life.

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new picture of how life on Earth – and elsewhere – may have begun ...