For decades, Europa has been cast as one of the Solar System’s best bets for alien biology, a frozen world hiding a global ...

Humans are captivated by the idea of finding life elsewhere in the universe – and even more by the idea that life, if found, might resemble the complex, animal life here on Earth. One of the easiest ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

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NASA has postponed a planned Jan. 8 spacewalk outside the International Space Station due to a "medical concern" with an ...

Taylor Hackford is an Oscar-winning filmmaker and former president of the Directors Guild of America. His films include “An ...

If nonliving materials can produce rich, organized mixtures of organic molecules, then the traditional signs we use to ...

WorldCon, the annual volunteer-run science fiction and fantasy writing convention, sweeps through a different city every year ...

The hive mind doesn’t quite fit in the same category of horror as slashers or monsters, but it is its own impressive breed of ...

The deep sea also harbours some of the most intriguing and alien-like species in existence, yet for several centuries, these ...

Far below the ocean’s surface, where sunlight disappears and pressure reaches crushing levels, some of the planet’s strangest life forms thrive. These deep-sea creatures have evolved in total darkness ...

Cautionary tales in science fiction are warning us about turning sleep into a commodity. Here's why some of those fears ...