Alien Life

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...

There are many, many unanswered questions about potentially contacting intelligent extraterrestrials. First, there's the little...

Most of the conversation surrounding the probability of alien life asks whether intelligent extraterrestrials exist right now (and if...

Even though it's probably just comets, the mysterious flickering of star KIC 8462852 has yet to be definitively solved. And as long as...

By now you've probably heard of the Fermi paradox, which essentially boils down to: "if there is highly intelligent life out there,...

Jupiter's moon Europa has long been considered a prime candidate for the discovery of alien life, as a result of the subterranean...

When a normal yellow star, like our Sun, starts to reach the end of its life, it swells up to hundreds of times its normal size and...

In the biggest single announcement of exoplanets ever recorded, NASA's Kepler team has announced that they have unveiled 1,284 new...