We spend billions of dollars scanning the cosmos for signs of life that look nothing like us, yet we often ignore the fact ...

A thick shell "implies a longer route that oxygen and nutrients would have to travel to connect Europa’s surface with its ...

A team of scientists from the University of Manchester have uncovered some of the earliest evidence of advanced, camera-like ...

Alec Gillis is a name that is as synonymous with the creature effects of the Predator and Alien series as the creators themselves are. Having been involved with both franchises as part of Stan Winston ...

In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible sign of life, known as a potential biosignature, on Mars. The Perseverance rover, which has been exploring a dried-up lakebed for years, found ...

Sea creatures have adapted to help them thrive in extreme environments. Unusual features allow them to live thousands of feet below the surface. Underwater robots give researchers a glimpse at some of ...

I’ve seen a lot of adorable Rescue Cats online, but this one might be out of this world, literally. Orbit, a gray-and-white cat with enormous, round eyes, looks like a tiny space alien disguised as a ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

When Ridley Scott first premiered “Alien” in 1979, a new era of practical effects and creature design was ushered into the cultural zeitgeist. Almost 50 years later, the world that Scott built ...

“Alien: Earth” has just concluded its first season, bringing the world originally imagined in Ridley Scott’s 1979 masterpiece to terra-firma for the very first time. (The original marketing materials ...

Editor's note: The below contains major spoilers for the Alien: Earth finale. The first two Alien films are among the most terrifying sci-fi horror movies ever made, but then the franchise lost its ...