Maybe the real monster in the Alien franchise isn’t actually the killer alien. Because behind the acid blood and jump scares ...

We're still in the definition phase of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), but it seems like every week a new research ...

A new SETI study suggests we may be overlooking alien signals not because they aren't there, but because their own stars are scrambling them before they escape into space. Turbulent plasma and ...

There is something almost offensive about a sky so full of stars and so empty of company. That is what gives Richard ...

Maybe we did not create life in the biological sense, but maybe we created something stranger: an alien form of ...

Few writers have shaped modern imagination like H. G. Wells, whose visionary ideas helped define science fiction and predicted technologies far ahead of his time. His 1898 classic The War of the ...

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 ...

Three years ago, during an expedition at the bottom of the Gulf of Alaska, a submarine detected a golden orb that contrasted with surrounding rocks. Its smooth, organic surface did not resemble that ...

Scientists have spent decades searching for extraterrestrial life by looking for specific signals from individual planets. However, a new study argues that this method could overlook a larger pattern.

A new ‘agnostic biosignature’ method searches for patterns across exoplanets, suggesting alien life could be detected by how it spreads and reshapes entire planetary systems. The search for a second ...

There are films we watch, and then there are films we carry with us. Project Hail Mary belongs firmly to the latter. It hasn’t just found an audience; it has found a rare kind of emotional unanimity.