For decades, the search for life beyond Earth has revolved around a key question: What molecules should scientists be looking ...

May 16, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you ...

For more than a century, the idea that life might have arrived on our planet from elsewhere in the cosmos sat at the fringes of science. Now a mix of genetic clues, asteroid samples and tough little ...

If you asked philosophers what the most mysterious thing about the mind is, most of them would say: consciousness. It’s just ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson has turned his lifelong fascination with aliens into a new book, “Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter.” ...

If intelligent life exists beyond Earth, we may be picturing the wrong kind of encounter. Most of us imagine other beings as ...

Publisher Sega and developer Creative Assembly have revealed what appears to be a teaser trailer for Alien: Isolation 2. A mysterious video titled "A False Sense of Security" was posted by the ...

Future Human Theory suggests the ‘aliens’ in UFO sightings are time-travelling humans from our own doomed future (For illustration purposes only) Magda Ehlers: Pexels A leading biological ...

Scientists say amino acids produced by life are distributed differently and more diversely than amino acids produced by ...

Curiosity, which is exploring Gale Crater, conducted a chemistry experiment on a rock sample that revealed complex carbon ...

Late 2024 gave us the long-awaited news that a sequel to 2014's Alien: Isolation was finally entering development. Developer Creative Assembly and publisher Sega have been quiet since then, with most ...

New UCR research shows that the search for life beyond Earth could benefit from a statistical approach that prioritizes ...