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, the search for life beyond Earth has focused on avoiding one of science’s biggest mistakes: claiming a ...

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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 ...

Are we alone in the universe? The astrophysicist doesn’t think so ...

With a much-hyped but middling Spielberg offering, a better-than-expected rom-com and a stinker horror-comedy, it’s a truly ...

Where did life on Earth come from? It is one of humanity’s oldest and most fascinating questions. For centuries, people have ...

Dr. Hal Puthoff claims the U.S. has recovered remains of four separate species of alien life from UFOs, citing people involved in the recoveries.

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself ...

Filmmakers have shaped our perception of the unknown, and Steven Spielberg has had aliens on the mind for a while now. He ...