What would aliens actually look like? While simple life forms like bacteria may be common in the universe, complex ...

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A lot of the alien races in the Star Trek universe are humanoid, and the original series explained that fact way back in the late 1960s.

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For generations, science fiction has imagined what life might look like on other worlds. Novelist H.G. Wells described nightmarish squid-like Martian invaders in The War of the Worlds, while the ...

By studying Earth's toughest microbes and complex animal "speech", scientists are reshaping how we search for – and may someday talk to – alien life.

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