Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for ...

Scientists have discovered an 'alien' material inside a massive crater on Earth, sparking new questions about how life may ...

When astrobiologists are asked what aliens might look like, many now point not to distant galaxies but to some of the ...

The universe is vast and teeming with stars – but if intelligent life exists, it may not be able to visit Earth.

Do aliens exist? Could Earth really be the only planet hosting intelligent life? Debates over the existence of extraterrestrials date back to the earliest Indigenous and western thought. The tools ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Over the past decade, scientists have come up with a variety of frameworks to guide ...

We have no idea what kind of life may exist on other planets, so it’s hard to know what to look for. Proxima Kósmos imagines a very different kind of solar system that could harbor life-forms we haven ...

Maverick director Nicolas Roeg delivered a surreal sci-fi classic in 1976 that still resonates today.