The question of whether aliens exist is not a new one. In science fiction films and books, people have wondered if we’re the only life in this universe and what that can imply for universes beyond ...

For more than a century, popular culture has trained us to picture extraterrestrials as bug-eyed, bipedal “little green men” who look suspiciously like us in rubber suits. The scientists who actually ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The great physicist Enrico Fermi first posed the challenging question over half a century ago, wondering why we appear to be alone ...

Fresh scientific findings highlight two major gaps in the hunt for alien life.

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

In your Editor’s Pick letter titled “Why esoteric science could be overlooked by aliens”, the writer thinks that spacefaring aliens might not know about relativity and quantum mechanics because it is ...

Adam Frank reviews Project Hail Mary—science, aliens, and realism under scrutiny. Astrophysicist Adam Frank joins us to review the hottest movie in the country, "Project Hail Mary." Did the writers ...

Syfy's The Ark returned Wednesday night with a season opener that killed a major character inside its first hour — and buried, quite literally, what may be the most scientifically credible storyline ...