Alien Life

To get an idea of just a few of the requirements for a habitable, Earth-like planet, here's a short list: it has to orbit its star at...

You'd think that after 70 years, the Roswell crash site would be picked clean, but New Mexico geologist Frank Kimbler claims that...

Last week, we reported on a new study that claimed that the only way advanced civilizations would be able to survive in the distant...

The Fermi Paradox may finally have an answer.   Between claims that humans aren't the first civilization to call the Milky Way home...

The universe has been around for about 13.7 billion years, but looking farther down the road, things start to get pretty bleak. In 100...

We're not strangers to Secureteam10, the YouTube conspiracy theory channel that dubiously has reported on a crashed UFO near...

Photosynthesis, the process of converting light into energy, is such a key part of any plant that the idea of "finding a new...

Billions of years ago, Earth saw a miraculous increase in the amount of oxygen floating around the planet, which would pave the way...

Remember that undated report on the Nimitz UFO incident discovered by a news team in Las Vegas?   Not only did it detail the...

Ever since astronomers realized that the closest Earth-like exoplanet, Proxima b, is probably an irradiated hellscape, excitement...

Since his original appearance on the History Channel's Ancient Aliens, Giorgio Tsoukalos' squinting, wild-haired face has been...

Whether aliens end up being squid-faced monstrosities or Wookiees, if they've got the intelligence and appropriate gripping...

When the New York Times first ran its story on the Pentagon's secret UFO program, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification...

Last year, the consulting linguist for the film Arrival, Jessica Coon, burst a lot of people's bubbles at Silicon Valley Comic-Con...

Since Fermi's first conversation with fellow scientists in 1950, the Fermi Paradox has haunted astrobiologists and astronomers with...

If you're not familiar with the 2004 Nimitz Incident, it's one of the more persuasive cases for the existence of UFOs (or 'Anomalous...

Despite being a haven for life, Earth has some pretty inhospitable environments--the deep ocean has enough darkness, low temperatures,...

The search for extraterrestrial life doesn't begin and end with intercepting radio signals from a distant alien civilization--or...

The YouTube channel secureteam10 claims this NASA photo shows an alien tank on the surface of the moon. But what are their real...

When all we know is Earth, how can we conceive of an alien civilization that doesn't look anything like Earth life?