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 ...

Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred million light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of ...

Although astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets, the number of confirmed exomoons—and exorings—is still zero. But ...

A unifying quality of the previous films in the Alien franchise is that they all focus on a “final girl,” a common hallmark of horror cinema. While Wendy might technically qualify for this description ...

DON'T NOD's new sci-fi action-adventure Aphelion brings players to a hostile planet in which exploration itself is a challenge.

Are aliens real? The question has animated conspiracy theories for decades and enthralled at least one former president of the United States. In a recent interview, Barack Obama became the first ...

New research reveals that elephant trunk whiskers are unlike any other animal's, and could inspire a new generation of robots.

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 ...

After purchasing a pair of Meta’s AI-powered smart glasses, a 50-year-old software architect says he spiraled into months of delusions that ultimately cost him his job, his savings, and much of his ...

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 ...