Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...

How big would a telescope need to be to see Earth’s dinosaurs from 66 million light-years away? Think big—and then think ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

A Catholic exorcist priest claims aliens are actually demons, arguing UFO abductions mirror diabolical attacks described in ...

Hardy bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which our planet was seeded with life.

In Amiri’s calculations, Dyson spheres around white dwarfs tend to produce cooler, fainter thermal emission that peaks in the near- to mid-infrared, while M-dwarf cases can radiate more strongly but ...

These 20 animals are so strange they look like science fiction creations, but they’re completely real. Nature is far more bizarre than you think.

Recent remarks by President Trump about releasing UFO files have reignited interest in Area 51, a secretive US military site ...

The race to develop a virtual scientist—an AI creation that conducts every stage of research, from idea to publication—has ...

That means if aliens were to exist, and they were located some 66 million light-years from Earth, they’d theoretically still ...