CNN’s Jake Tapper donned a Donald Trump–brand tie today for his interview with the businessman and potential 2016 presidential candidate, and pressed Trump, who talks tough about trying to bring ...

Alien languages in film and TV do more than sound cool—they build entire worlds, making extraterrestrial cultures feel real. From guttural growls to melodic clicks, these invented tongues add depth to ...

Life in Space” runs until September at San Francisco’s Exploratorium, and is about the extreme conditions beyond Earth ...

Aliens may well exist somewhere in the cosmos, but they are unlikely to be visiting Earth any time soon, according to a new analysis by Professor Carol Oliver of the University of New South Wales in ...

Beyond the window lies a blue planet. Gray clouds hang silently over those small island nations. The electromagnetic navigation monitor occasionally "Beep... static ...

When I look at the night sky, I don’t wonder whether alien life is somewhere out there; I think it probably is. Considering the sheer number of stars in the cosmos, and the possibly larger number of ...

Memories are often tied to one of the senses: taste, touch, sight, sound, or smell. '90s kids might not even realize that they grew up in a time with many of these memory-making senses that were ...

The Great Pyramid has been called a tomb, a wonder of engineering, and the subject of countless conspiracy theories. Now, it is being called a potential extraterrestrial communication device. A new ...

The White House turned a legal term into a science-fiction spectacle. The real story is not the theatrics. It is how language moves an audience from watching to acting.

When astrobiologists are asked what aliens might look like, many now point not to distant galaxies but to some of the strangest corners of Earth, where researchers on several continents are using ...

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 ...