Will humanity extend into the far future? It's likely many of us think it should. The problem is that each of us, individually and collectively, act otherwise—we are destroying the environment and ...

A baffling triangular formation deep in the Nevada desert is igniting theories that it could be the handiwork of a forgotten ...

If you've been following exoplanet research over the last couple of years, you've definitely heard of K2-18b. Located 124 ...

All this changed as the Star Trek timeline continued, though. By the time of The Next Generation, Picard could simply ask the computer a question and get a primer on the latest alien race. The Alpha ...

Questions about what the federal government may know about extraterrestrial life in the cosmos — or possibly even here on ...

Popular culture imagines aliens as creatures made of flesh and bone — but some researchers argue that advanced civilizations ...

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 ...

The findings suggest that if alien technologies exist, they are probably rare, distant, or long-lasting rather than frequent and nearby. Instead of expecting an obvious signal to appear soon, ...