Alien Life

Here’s a fun piece of trivia for Star Trek fans: Klingons spoke Klingon before the language was actually created. How is that...

Have you ever wondered whether or not you have what it takes to become an astrophysicist? Have you ever dreamed of discovering...

Red dwarf stars--the most common star type in our galaxy. They have been the subject of recent discussion as planets surrounding them...

  When we heard about the movie Arrival, we had the same reaction a lot of sci-fi fans did: "Linguistics? They're going to make a...

Seven Earth-like planets have just been discovered orbiting an ultra-cool dwarf star (that's an official name, we're not just...

Recent studies have indicated that there is likely a subsurface ocean underneath Pluto's Sputnik Planitia. But does that mean there...

In our search for extraterrestrial life, we may have overlooked one giant possibility - that alien life is right in front of us, or...

Last weekend, sci-fi blockbuster Arrival opened in theaters, thrilling audiences with beautiful action sequences of alien spaceships...

Stephen Hawking has been pretty explicit about what he thinks of contacting aliens: if they call, don't answer. Hawking is also one of...

Today, a study was published that announced the news we've all been waiting for: aliens are trying to talk to us. More specifically,...

You've probably heard that Blink 182's former lead singer, Tom DeLonge, has a pretty big obsession with UFOs. He's made a number of...

We've spoken in the past about Mass Effect's use of quantum entanglement to create a communicator that can transmit messages securely...

Scientists have long known that Europa is a prime candidate for extraterrestrial life, as a result of its subsurface ocean that could...

In a new short film from CuriosityStream, Stephen Hawking explores a beautiful, digitally rendered version of the universe and talks...

Have we just made contact with extraterrestrial life? (Or, more accurately, has extraterrestrial life just made contact with us?) An...

Are we alone in the universe? That's the age-old question, and although astronomy has made plenty of progress in exploring the nearby...

For many years, scientists have all but taken for granted that, statistically speaking, there must be habitable planets within stars'...

Star Trek is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and the franchise is celebrating with both Star Trek Beyond and a new TV...

Have we been looking for signs of Martian life in the wrong place? A new study claims that meteorites may destroy all signs of life...

In 2010: Odyssey Two, Arthur C. Clarke's sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, Jupiter was "ignited" through a nuclear fusion process, and...