Varzim Sport Club, in 1982, looked like an alien club in a nation that had been living in a dictatorship less than a decade prior. They were pioneers, even if forgotten ones, in making football shirts ...

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

Step inside a dazzling fantasy world full of magical creatures, meet a boy struggling with big family changes, share laughter with an alien girl trying to bring about world peace, and enjoy adventures ...

For decades, scientists have searched the skies for signs of extraterrestrial technology. A study from EPFL asks a sharp question: if alien signals have already reached Earth without us noticing, what ...

Ridley Scott’s 8-part sci-fi series has been reborn as the perfect weekend binge while audiences wait for Season 2.

A new crew rocketed toward the International Space Station on Friday to replace the astronauts who returned to Earth early in ...

Astronomers suspect that a massive metallic cloud swirling in a nearby star system could be hiding a giant planet or dwarf star from view, after it drastically dimmed a sun-like star for around nine ...

A financial crisis could be triggered by an announcement that aliens exist, according to Helen McCaw, a former policy expert of the Bank of England. McCaw told The Times of London that politicians and ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

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.

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...