There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember. ” That observation, attributed to ...

An intriguing religious issue is raised by an odd space-age colloquy in mid-February between Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Out of the blue, political podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen asked Obama, “Are ...

While aliens in science fiction hop between planets on vast spaceships, scientists say real-life extraterrestrials might take a far less glamorous means of transport.

Ridley Scott intended for Prometheus to be a completely separate tale from his horror classic Alien, but he also knows why fans didn't connect with it.

Gypsum is a soft, translucent sulfate mineral that allows just enough light to penetrate for photosynthetic organisms to survive inside, while also protecting them from being desiccated or exposed to ...

Science fiction has imagined everything from little green men to tentacled monsters—but real biology may offer clearer clues. Evolution follows universal rules, meaning alien life on Earth-like ...

More than 2,500 alien plant species could find suitable conditions in the Arctic, especially in northern Norway and Svalbard.

Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

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

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

Barack Obama clarified his podcast comments about extraterrestrial life, taking to Instagram to detail that he saw no evidence to suggest that aliens have visited Earth ...