Our universe does host life, but another one might be even better suited for life. Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers are studying how hospitable our universe is to ...

Avi Loeb famously dubbed the October 27 perihelion event of 3I/ATLAS as a possible black swan event that would render all our material possessions and money useless if the object turned out to be a ...

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

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 ...

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

Alien invasion stories are among the earliest science fiction in the Western canon—they not only explore the strange and unknown but also heighten the stakes by bringing danger inside human ...