Searching for alien languages sheds light on how much human languages have in common—with each other and even with animal ...

A longer version of Alien 3, the Assembly Cut, is now available. This version, assembled from deleted scenes, offers a more ...

Hollywood has driven how Americans envision little green men with big eyes and bigger heads. But fiction soon could be ...

What would alien life from another planet be like? But we rarely ask the opposite: What would they think of us?

Linda Fries, a science writer at Rice University, holds a meteorite fragment recovered after a rare daytime fireball over ...

From White Sands and the Great Sand Dunes to Bryce, Bisti, Bonneville, and Petrified Forest, these 10 U.S. landscapes feel almost extraterrestrial, shaped not by lava but by gypsum, salt, sandstone, ...

Weir also wrote “The Martian,” a bestseller that was then adapted by director Ridley Scott for one of the better dad movies ...

(NewsNation) — Images of a pyramid-like shape on the surface of Mars are propelling theories that alien beings constructed the object, but one expert on the Red Planet has some disappointing news for ...

The majority of “Project Hail Mary” takes place in outer space in the near future, but like many message-driven science fiction films, it’s really about the here and now on Earth. Based on the 2011 ...

Assuming intelligent aliens know how to harvest energy from stars, would humanity be able to spot these high-level structures? Reading time 3 minutes Assuming aliens do physics like us but are ...

A web of EEG electrodes covered Anton Bilton’s scalp like a jeweled headdress. The machine would map his brain activity while the potent psychedelic dimethyltryptamine, commonly known as DMT, coursed ...

Sen. Ted Budd, R-N.C., and Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., introduced the Stop Illegal Alien Cops Act, a bicameral bill aimed at preventing individuals who are in the United States illegally from possessing ...