One unexpected choice in the Alien franchise's best prequel breaks a big rule of spinoffs by shattering franchise continuity, ...

A siphonophore—a colonial marine invertebrate related to the venomous stinging Portuguese Man-o-war—is scanned using Deep ...

An unidentified DNA sample found on one of Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s boots has returned to the heart of the case almost 30 ...

A well-worn expression among oceanographers and others who explore the watery depths of planet Earth is that we humans “know the surface of Mars better than our ocean floors.” Covering more than 70 ...

A judge dismissed a copyright lawsuit against Beyoncé's Parkwood Entertainment company because the plaintiff company did not ...

Two small 'non-human' bodies have been presented to Mexico's Congress. The Congress is investigating the potential existence of extraterrestrial life. The bodies come from Peru and that country's ...

It may seem like we are on the verge of discovering alien life. In 2025, a press release stated that we have the "strongest hints yet" of extraterrestrial life on the exoplanet K2-18b. And when ...

The White House rolled out a website at aliens.gov this week. Obviously, everyone thought this was about aliens. The website has green text on a black background and a full-blown space aesthetic. “For ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life. Tardigrades—a type of invertebrate ...

Scientists may have found a powerful new way to hunt for alien life — not by searching for specific molecules, but by looking for hidden patterns in how those molecules are organized. Researchers ...

Researchers discovered that life leaves behind unique statistical patterns in molecules, potentially offering a new way to identify alien biology. Credit: Stock Scientists may have found a hidden ...

Two rovers have had big breaks over the past few years in the case of whether Mars ever hosted life. Curiosity, which is exploring Gale Crater, conducted a chemistry experiment on a rock sample that ...