Discoveries from the Isle of Wight have unveiled ancient shellfish fossils that highlight early parental care practices.

There’s no data to suggest that aliens exist. However, if we believed they existed and came to Earth, our planet would offer ...

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself resurfaces: if aliens were to arrive on Earth, would they come to conquer us, ...

Scott Solomon is an evolutionary biologist. We spoke to him about what our descendants in future settlements on the Red ...

Some frogs have evolved features so strange that scientists struggle to explain them, and a few look less like amphibians ...

In 2016, during the first Trump campaign, I wrote an article asking whether American democracy could survive the reduction of politics to entertainment. At the time, the question seemed exaggerated to ...

Are we alone in the universe? Consider mysterious "extraterrestrial" radio signals. Unexplained gases on other planets.

As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters of the Third Kind contact humans using music and lights, but the director ...

When it comes to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, methane and other chemical compounds are seen as signs of ...

The nature of space, time and the evolution of life on Earth mean it’s unlikely extraterrestrial life has visited our home ...

Thus far, our search for extraterrestrial life points toward Clarke’s former point, suggesting that our little blue dot is ...

Could humans spread Earth life beyond our planet? Astrobiologists explain where extremophiles might survive and why the risks ...