Explore the fascinating science and alien life in 'Project Hail Mary,' highlighting Rocky and the star system 40 Eridani.

Science suggests that alien life may not be as random as science fiction often imagines. Through evolution and natural ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising way to study the harsh space weather around young M dwarf stars. Mysterious dips in ...

E.T. could be phoning home — but we’re not hearing the call. A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal argues that “space weather” could be distorting incoming transmissions from ...

Human activity brings with it alien species and creates excellent conditions that allow them to become established in an otherwise barren Arctic landscape. (Kristine Bakke Westergaard, NTNU via SWNS) ...

Over hundreds of thousands of years, humans somehow evolved a type of intelligence found nowhere else in the animal kingdom, at least on Earth. According to the most famous theory describing the ...

These movies are the pinnacle of 70s sci-fi and the hard science fiction subgenre - priortizing scientific accuracy over ...

A strange, tentacled object that went viral online was revealed to be a space-grown purple potato. Astronaut Don Pettit ...

Debunking alien claims matters, but so does telling richer, more compelling stories about how humans shaped their own past.

As the science fiction author publishes the latest novel in his Children of Time series, Children of Strife, he talks to ...

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about modern anxieties than the past itself? The idea that aliens assisted the ...