A mysterious structure emerges in a distant landscape, raising new questions in the search for intelligent alien life. The ...

In these science fiction books, extraterrestrial beings are sympathetic, horrifying and everything in between.

A study using the Very Large Array radio telescope may have discovered a magnetic field on exoplanet YZ Ceti b. Magnetic ...

Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s “habitable zone,” often considered the gold standard of potential livability An ...

Trump has ordered a UFO data release. But if aliens exist, what would they think of us? - For generations, human beings have ...

What would alien life from another planet be like? But we rarely ask the opposite: What would they think of us? It’s a question that can produce some, well, uncomfortable answers if you happen to be ...

What would alien life from another planet be like? But we rarely ask the opposite: What would they think of us?

Steven Spielberg has made a lot of movies about aliens.

Movies like "Disclosure Day" and "Project Hail Mary" renew our fascination with extraterrestrials and the idea that humankind ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. [CLIP: The spaceship Hail Mary’s operating system (played by Priya Kansara) speaks in ...

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