Science fiction often shows aliens with human features like eyes, limbs, and faces. But science has a reason for questioning ...

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

A UFO whistleblower claims aliens walk among us, are billions of years more advanced than humans and may have inspired famous ...

When we imagine alien life, we picture monsters, insects, or tentacles—but what if the most realistic aliens are human-like? Evolution tends to solve the same problems with similar designs, and ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

Language and radio signals may not matter to aliens. Instead, they might be using patterns to leave a biological fingerprint.

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

The finding suggests phosphine—a potential biosignature—shouldn’t be viewed as evidence of alien life until natural, non-biological sources are ruled out. Reading time 5 minutes For scientists, the ...