What if you found out that you had a long-lost relative? And what if that long-lost relative was from a different planet in ...

For generations, science fiction has imagined what life might look like on other worlds. These aliens are fictional, sure, but some of them are informed by real evolutionary processes on Earth. That's ...

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

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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 ...

When astrobiologists are asked what aliens might look like, many now point not to distant galaxies but to some of the strangest corners of Earth, where researchers on several continents are using ...

Early cinema depicted aliens as human-like for familiarity and practical reasons, but modern science fiction explores ...

Astronomer Jon Willis warns that alien signals could be passing Earth unnoticed because humans are searching on the wrong scales, with the wrong assumptions about life and intelligence.