The standard sci-fi alien is a human actor with ridged forehead prosthetics, human motivations, human relationship structures ...

During the initial analysis of the data recovered from the Scoop 7 satellite, Dr. Ruth Leavitt (Kate Reid) and her colleagues ...

In the book version of “Project Hail Mary,” author Andy Weir, known for grounding his fiction in plausible science, describes ...

Researchers propose turning a future NASA moon base into a quarantine station that would screen space samples before they ever reach Earth.

A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about ...

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...

A biologist specializing in invasive species has partnered with a former Pentagon strategist in pushing NASA to construct a ...

Scientists propose a simple but powerful new method for detecting traces of alien biology, whether on Jupiter's icy moons, in ...

Researchers say a biocontainment facility on the Moon could be humanity's last line of defense against potential future alien ...

The best way to find alien technosignatures is to look for ones that have long survived their creators, according to a new ...

If aliens ever do reach our planet, they might not come to steal things, conquer us or reveal cosmic secrets. Perhaps they ...