The curious minds at What If explore the extraordinary consequences if you mated with an alien and had hybrid offspring, examining the biological, social, and cultural implications.

Are we alone in this universe? Is there intelligent life out there? Or are they living among us? Humans have wondered about aliens for centuries. But, have you ever thought about the most important ...

But the real truth is that alien life on other planets could be even stranger than floating balloons or amorphous organisms ...

The odds are that life is out there – but rather than little green men, it may look more like hydrothermal vent tubeworms ...

Former U.S. President Barack Obama has clarified comments he made about alien life on a podcast over the weekend ...

A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

In the middle of Turkmenistan’s Karakum Desert lies something that looks straight out of a nightmare. The Door to Hell which ...

Surprisingly, a toxic compound found on Mars could help bacteria produce brick-like substances that could be used to assemble habitats on the Red Planet.

In 2021, a curious discovery pushed penguins into an unexpected corner of science. Researchers studying chemical signatures linked to the search for extraterrestrial life found traces of phosphine in ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.