The second movie in James Gunn's recently rebooted DC Cinematic Universe, Supergirl follows Kara (Milly Alcock) as she's off ...

Maymo the Dog gets drawn into a wild game of laser pointer with an alien and can't resist playing along.

An instrument on the Perseverance rover has identified large, complex carbon compounds alongside unusual patterns on the ...

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

Planetarium will commemorate the 250th birthday of the United States in July with a new star show focusing on the celestial ...

Even at this early stage in our spacefaring age, humanity has already begun sending probes that will eventually reach other ...

Our search for technosignatures—clear signs of advanced civilizations beyond Earth—takes many forms. Many are driven by the famous Drake equation, which attempts to estimate how many technological ...

Future "lasercoms" will enable high-definition video of the moment astronauts return to walk on the moon. The world followed ...

Some Republicans and immigration hawks are demanding that the Trump administration finally end a visa program that ...

Previous landmark scientific discoveries like the Higgs boson provide a better template for what it will take to confirm whether aliens have made contact with Earth.

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Polygon Summer Game Fest 2026 Live game reveals, world premiere trailers, and what’s next from 40+ developers, publishers, and hardware makers. Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 is a co-op shooter where you ...