Creating a believable alien world takes more than imagination. It requires biology, environmental logic, and evolutionary pressure. The Birrin ecosystem follows scientific rules every step of the way.

Throughout February, WTOP is celebrating Black History Month. Join us on-air and online as we bring you the stories, people and places that make up our diverse community. The historic slave auction ...

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — There are major plans underway for a once controversial corner in downtown Fredericksburg. A permanent memorial is planned for the site of the former slave auction block.

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.

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a unique planet in another star system that’s shaped like a lemon. The lopsided Jupiter-style planet is so bizarre that it may blur the ...

Americans are becoming more open to the idea that aliens have visited Earth, according to a series of polls that show belief in alien visitation has been steadily on the rise since 2012. Moreover, ...

Exoplanet TOI-561 b is the closest of four worlds orbiting a 10-billion-year-old G-type star roughly 280 light-years from Earth. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf Crawford illustration NASA’s James Webb ...

In 1965, twelve astronauts vanished into deep space on a mission Earth never acknowledged—sent to live among aliens on a planet called Serpo. What they found was a world of impossible tech, but not ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

Cats have been on this Earth longer than humans have. At least, the ancestors of cats! Scientists claim that the first "panther-like" creatures were roaming this Earth as early as 10 million years ago ...

Alien: Earth just pulled off one of the best fakeouts in recent TV history. After kicking off the Alien prequel series by introducing an entire crew of Weyland-Yutani employees aboard a ship called ...

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) focuses on finding technosignatures—potential signs of alien technology. If we look carefully, we might have a chance at detecting their ...