This video explores what alien life might actually look like if evolution, physics, and planetary environments are allowed to ...

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

Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s “habitable zone,” often considered the gold standard of potential livability An ...

Astronomers hunting alien signals say turbulent stellar plasma around distant worlds may be scrambling extraterrestrial ...

Over the past decade, scientists have come up with a variety of frameworks to guide their search for life in the universe. While it’s most convenient to start looking for life using the knowledge that ...

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For generations, science fiction has imagined what life might look like on other worlds. These aliens are fictional, sure, but some of them are informed by real evolutionary processes on Earth. That's ...