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

For decades, scientists have searched the skies for signs of extraterrestrial technology. A study from EPFL asks a sharp question: if alien signals have already reached Earth without us noticing, what ...

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 ...

Bacteria in the human gut can directly deliver proteins into human cells, actively shaping immune responses. A consortium led by researchers at Helmholtz Munich, with participation from Ludwig ...

A New Zealand woman gets knocked up by something from another world in a movie that has a sweet, sticky heart underneath its juvenile humor and outrageous prosthetics. “Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant” ...

A financial crisis could be triggered by an announcement that aliens exist, according to Helen McCaw, a former policy expert of the Bank of England. McCaw told The Times of London that politicians and ...

There’s no denying the allure of alien artifacts. Science fiction is awash in the material remnants of extraterrestrial civilizations, which surface in everything from the classic books of Arthur C.

It's a big universe out there, and while we're all for exploring it, a specific subgenre of science fiction movies has hinted that it might be a bad idea. Alien invasion movies have come in droves ...

Ridley Scott's inimitable 1979 sci-fi thriller, Alien, expertly ratchets up the tension by not having the titular alien show up on screen until roughly an hour into the film. Following in Scott's ...

Spacecraft are assembled in specialized “cleanrooms” that are designed to avoid contamination from dust and microorganisms. But bacteria called extremophiles have genetic components that allow them to ...