That little alien emoji staring back from your phone, with its smooth, bulbous head and almond-shaped black eyes, has ...

The search for life beyond Earth has always been full of surprises. Strange radio signals have sparked excitement. Odd gases on distant worlds have raised questions. Even ordinary objects have been ...

Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty season 9 episode 7, titled Mortgully: The Last Rickforest, turns a simple mission to collect valuable tree sap into a bizarre survival challenge that pushes Rick and Morty ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS carries isotopic ratios entirely outside the Solar System range, ESO’s Very Large Telescope has ...

Comets have played an interesting role in the history of astronomy. Since antiquity, many cultures saw them as omens or ...

After a two week expedition off the coast of Brazil, an international team of researchers discovered 31 new marine species, ...

Teetering near endangered status, the starlet sea anemone produces “an ancient mechanism” for fighting viruses that ...

The idea that octopuses might be aliens emerged from the theory of panspermia (Stelele 2018), according to which life on Earth is not entirely of terrestrial ...

I/ATLAS arrived fast, bright, and strange. When astronomers spotted it on July 1, 2025, they knew almost immediately this was no ordinary comet.

In a new paper, researchers examine the possibility of other consciousnesses that take on forms far beyond our imagination.

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself resurfaces: if aliens were to arrive on Earth, would they come to conquer us, ...