For decades, the search for life beyond Earth has revolved around a key question: What molecules should scientists be looking ...

May 16, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you ...

For more than a century, the idea that life might have arrived on our planet from elsewhere in the cosmos sat at the fringes of science. Now a mix of genetic clues, asteroid samples and tough little ...

If you asked philosophers what the most mysterious thing about the mind is, most of them would say: consciousness. It’s just ...

Publisher Sega and developer Creative Assembly have revealed what appears to be a teaser trailer for Alien: Isolation 2. A mysterious video titled "A False Sense of Security" was posted by the ...

Future Human Theory suggests the ‘aliens’ in UFO sightings are time-travelling humans from our own doomed future (For illustration purposes only) Magda Ehlers: Pexels A leading biological ...

Scientists say amino acids produced by life are distributed differently and more diversely than amino acids produced by ...

Curiosity, which is exploring Gale Crater, conducted a chemistry experiment on a rock sample that revealed complex carbon ...

Late 2024 gave us the long-awaited news that a sequel to 2014's Alien: Isolation was finally entering development. Developer Creative Assembly and publisher Sega have been quiet since then, with most ...

Alien Day was this past Sunday (April 26), and to celebrate one of the best sci-fi horror franchises of all time, HBO Max has just added the special editions of the first four Alien movies onto the ...

Noah Hawley, the man behind Fargo, the upcoming Far Cry TV adaptation, and Alien: Earth has revealed that Season 2 of the science fiction show is close to beginning to film at Pinewood Studios in ...

Just over 40 years ago, in his novel Contact, astronomer Carl Sagan imagined what it would be like to detect radio signals beamed from other intelligent lifeforms in the galaxy. In the story, these ...