From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

In “Captives and Companions,” Justin Marozzi traces the stories of the eunuchs, harem women and forced laborers who ...

I got too greedy. My clone marines had purged the xeno hive, taking minimal damage, and were ready to extract. But as a faceless desk jockey working for a corporation in a grim capitalist retro-future ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

‘Predator: Badlands’ contains several references to the ‘Alien’ franchise, but how deep does the connection go, and what does it mean for future sewu Alien and Predator aren’t nearly as intertwined as ...

When we imagine contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, we tend to picture messages: radio signals, mathematical codes, or perhaps a universal language waiting to be discovered. But what if alien ...

Laura Nicole Driessen is an ambassador for the Orbit Centre of Imagination at the Rise and Shine Kindergarten, in Sydney's Inner West. On October 29, Comet 3I/ATLAS reached its closest point to the ...

The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is, once again, doing something strange. This interloper from another star is currently concealed from view behind the sun, leading some people to wonder what it has ...

Assuming our solar system’s newest interstellar object isn’t an alien mothership sent here to menace us, humankind still hasn’t spotted any signs of extraterrestrial life, let alone intelligence — ...

Alien: Earth definitely gets a lot right, but after watching the season 1 finale, I'm torn, because it gets a lot of things wrong, too. There's clear commitment to certain aspects of the Alien ...

The eyes of every astronomer widened this year when an interstellar traveler was discovered in our solar system. Despite some suggestions that it could be an alien spacecraft, observations from some ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Object 3I/ATLAS is now too far from Earth to aim a telescope at, but prior observations showed some unusual behavior. The anomalous nature of the ...