In virtual experiments, AI repeatedly misread dead digital organisms as self-replicating life.

A new policy paper proposes a lunar biocontainment facility for extraterrestrial samples. This secure lunar laboratory would ...

What to know about the ICE shooting that killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston’s East End and sparked demands for ...

I don’t believe it’s an accident that Noah Hawley titled Episode 6 of Alien: Earth “The Fly.” The series comes back to the present tense to further explore the nature of humanity in the experiments on ...

This new group, which is led by Harvard professor Avi Loeb, aims to advise the Trump administration and the U.S. intelligence ...

Emily Blunt and Josh O'Connor race around the Midwest trying to expose UFOs in a hectic adventure that lacks intelligent life.

A new trailer dropped for the long-awaited sequel to the 2014 video game classic Alien: Isolation. While the trailer, premiered by developer Creative Assembly at Summer Game Fest in Los Angeles, ...

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new picture of how life on Earth – and elsewhere – may have begun ...

We see these nasty little bloaters in in episode 1 burrowing into a dead rat in the Maginot's onboard laboratory. It turns out to be a fairly gruesome foreshadowing of what they're capable of later in ...

For decades, the search for life beyond Earth has revolved around a key question: What molecules should scientists be looking for on other planets or moons? A new study, published in Nature Astronomy, ...

He drinks, and he knows things. Hopefully, those things are about xenomorphs. That’s because none other than Peter Dinklage is joining the cast of Alien: Earth season two. The casting is the first big ...

A mysterious metal shard captured the imagination of the American public, because it was supposedly from a 1947 UFO that crashed on Earth. The sample seemed to have an unprecedented material structure ...