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

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

For centuries, humans have gazed at the stars and wondered whether we are alone in the universe. The question of ...

The research is mounting up that we might not be alone in this big wide world. So what's the likelihood that aliens are out ...

"Star Trek" is home to countless alien species, many of whom offer beloved characters. Some are not. We rank the 10 most ...

Oscar-winning actress Jessica Chastain is returning for a second season of Audible’s “The Space Within,” an audio thriller ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

Some big sci-fi names are making their return to the gaming landscape this year, with Halo: Campaign Evolved and Dawn of War ...

Shannon had played a trailer-trash fuckup in Letts’s early hit, the nihilist neo-noir “Killer Joe,” and for “Bug,” a more ...

Tadeo Ramirez-Parada studied the timing of plant flowering for his PhD — but he didn’t touch a single petal. Instead, he ...

The investigation of pulsar signals suggests that aliens may be communicating their presence by flashing signals in the universe.

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