Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

A 56-year-old man with liver failure has become the first living person to be surgically connected to a genetically modified ...

A new study of ancient pottery adds to evidence that hunter-gatherers in Europe ate more than meat and developed early elements of cuisine.

The newly discovered fish fossil fills a key gap in our understanding of the evolution of vertebrate diversity.

N ASA has revealed the surprisingly sophisticated meals that astronauts will eat on their way around the Moon during the ...

A new psychedelic retreat calling itself a “SETI for the mind” aims to establish two-way communication with the nonhuman entities people encounter while tripping on DMT.

An intriguing religious issue is raised by an odd space-age colloquy in mid-February between Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Out of the blue, political podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen asked Obama, “Are ...

On a hot February morning, Galápagos National Park rangers released 50 giant tortoises back to Floreana Island—marking the ...

Hellboy and The Shape of Water star Doug Jones talks to us about his latest transformation as the hilarious alien "Elder" in sci-fi comedy, Operation Taco Gary's.

Explore 15 strange facts about the human body that sound surreal. From glowing skin to acid-proof stomachs, our biology is stranger than fiction.

Over hundreds of thousands of years, humans somehow evolved a type of intelligence found nowhere else in the animal kingdom, at least on Earth. According to the most famous theory describing the ...

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...