A mysterious 420-million-year-old ancient life form challenges evolution, defying classification as plant, animal or fungus.

Astrobiology Club at the University seeks to break down misconceptions of alien life and create a space for scientific discussions.

Science fiction often shows aliens with human features like eyes, limbs, and faces. But science has a reason for questioning ...

Language and radio signals may not matter to aliens. Instead, they might be using patterns to leave a biological fingerprint.

Octopuses break so many biological expectations that scientists still struggle to explain how they ended up this way through ...

On paper, and clearly to many critics 20 years ago, the second Underworld movie is a downgrade in several respects. Vampire ...

If aliens from space can die and mourn their dead then they likely invented gods to worship. Because they missed their loved ones, and did not wish to die themselves, they invented an afterlife.

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

If aliens are out there, why haven’t we heard from them? That’s the question at the center of Pop Mech’s new story, “Aliens Probably Exist—But They’re Staying Silent For a Reason, NASA Scientist ...

If aliens are out there, why haven’t we heard from them? That’s the question at the center of Pop Mech’s new story, “Aliens Probably Exist—But They’re Staying Silent For a Reason, NASA Scientist ...