Convergent evolution shows how life on Earth often develops similar traits under similar conditions—raising the question of ...

For years, the Fermi Paradox made one idea seem obvious: in a universe this huge, alien civilizations should be everywhere.

The Burlington sculptor’s ceramic creatures include monsters, aliens, politicians and middle-aged women: All are weird, funny and demand a close look.

As an astrophysicist, my world revolves around the wonders of space and the mysteries of the universe. This means I can be a ...

Over hundreds of thousands of years, humans somehow evolved a type of intelligence found nowhere else in the animal kingdom, at least on Earth. According to the most famous theory describing the ...

Former President Barack Obama said he did not see evidence that aliens "have made contact with us," after sending social media abuzz by saying aliens were real on a podcast over the weekend. During a ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

In 1950, famed astrophysicist Enrico Fermi posed a profound question during a casual lunch with colleagues: Where is everybody? In other words, if there’s an extremely high probability that advanced ...