Some wasps are unsettling, and then there are species so extreme that even the scientists who study them reach for words like “horror,” “vampire,” and “nightmare.” These insects combine outsized ...

Ridley Scott's inimitable 1979 sci-fi thriller, Alien, expertly ratchets up the tension by not having the titular alien show up on screen until roughly an hour into the film. Following in Scott's ...

The Alien tabletop RPG's latest edition adds plenty of new rules and playstyles to your armory - but they're not going to ...

H.R. Giger's original creature design continues to frighten audiences decades after it debuted in "Alien," but does the fearsome Xenomorph have eyes?

We frequently question whether we are alone in the universe. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This article was originally ...

Scarlett Howard currently has funding from the Australian Research Council and the Hermon Slade Foundation. Adrian Dyer receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Alexander von ...

High-energy particles zipping through the cosmos are harmful to life on Earth, but scientists think it could be food for potential alien life elsewhere. Saturn's moon Enceladus (shown here in a 2006 ...

Humans have always been fascinated with space. We frequently question whether we are alone in the universe. If not, what does intelligent life look like? And how would aliens communicate? How could ...

In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible sign of life, known as a potential biosignature, on Mars. The Perseverance rover, which has been exploring a dried-up lakebed for years, found ...

Carole Haswell receives funding from STFC. We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of these is whether Earth is the ...

The observatory will combine tech from NASA's most powerful space telescopes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA is ramping up ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...