Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

Image courtesy of FX. By Luis Zonenberg While we continue to look back on last year’s film catalogue, there is still a ...

It is often suggested that this may have already happened: alien technosignatures may have reached Earth during the past six decades but have gone unnoticed. If that is true, it suggests that more ...

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The curious minds at What If imagine aliens visiting Earth a million years in the future, exploring what remnants of humanity and civilization they might encounter. Study of 27.8M Americans may have ...

If you've been following exoplanet research over the last couple of years, you've definitely heard of K2-18b. Located 124 ...

In last week’s The Universe column, I fielded a reader’s question about galaxy collisions in an expanding universe. The answer deals with vast distances, inscrutable forces and the ultimate fate of ...

"Life might actually survive being ejected from one planet and moving to another." ...

We may not have found any definitive proof of extraterrestrial life just yet, despite plenty of hope among scientists. But if we were to ever come to an answer in the form of alien biology or ...

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...

You don't need a rocket ship to visit another world. Right here on planet Earth, there are bizarre landscapes that defy expectations. They're real places you could visit with nothing more than a plane ...

Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor star in the latest alien film from iconic director Steven Spielberg, out June 12. Reading time 1 minute Freshly minted EGOT winner Steven Spielberg has made some of the ...