One that caught attention from many was a type of sea mollusk that washed ashore on South Padre Island in late May.

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

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

Pocock, a space scientist at University College London and a well-known BBC presenter, believes scientists will make a ...

Released by Topps in the early 1960s, the Mars Attacks line provoked parental outrage for its provocative imagery regarding a ...

As NASA plans for long-term human missions beyond Earth, one question keeps resurfacing: how do you sustain life in places ...

Pocock, a space scientist at University College London and BBC presenter, predicts alien life will be found by 2075 but ...

A leading British space scientist is 'absolutely convinced' life exists beyond Earth and predicts a positive detection by 2075. Drawing on the vastness of the universe and the Drake equation, she ...

With the third Avatar film now in theaters, here are some other great sci-fi movies that give James Cameron and Co. a run for their money.

From space slugs to lunar cemeteries, these movies, games, and books show that the undead can arrive from above, as well as below.

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

For more than a century, popular culture has trained us to picture extraterrestrials as bug-eyed, bipedal “little green men” ...