Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

Science fiction often shows aliens with human features like eyes, limbs, and faces. But science has a reason for questioning this idea. Through convergent evolution, similar environments and physical ...

This video examines whether alien plants could actually be blue and what physics says about plant color beyond Earth. It ...

PROOF of alien life is one step closer to being found thanks to a massive earthquake-proof telescope that’s near completion ...

The combustible sedimentary rock, better known as coal, was not only crucial to the onset of advanced technology here on Earth, but it should also be key to the development of advanced E.T.s residing ...

Fossils from China's Chengjiang beds reveal that early vertebrate ancestors, jawless fish called myllokunmingids, possessed ...

But the real truth is that alien life on other planets could be even stranger than floating balloons or amorphous organisms ...

New scientific theory based on ancient proteins suggests that genes did not arise as we believed and that life could have started elsewhere.

The new plot twist is that in order to keep enough nitrogen and phosphorus near its surface, a planet has to start out with ...

And so, in celebration of the beauty of love in all its many, sometimes very tentacle-heavy forms, we offer up this: A look ...

Two of the best shows of this genre were Star Trek’s Deep Space Nine and the independent series, Babylon 5. Both series confront the harsh realities of war and occupation. Babylon 5 begins in the ...

If you're searching for science fiction movies that will make you question or contemplate humanity, these are some of the ...