Mars presents one of the strangest sights in the solar system: a blue-tinted Sun setting against a red sky. This episode ...

For more than six decades, astronomers have listened for possible signals from extraterrestrial civilisations, with no confirmed detection to date. A .

How big would a telescope need to be to see Earth’s dinosaurs from 66 million light-years away? Think big—and then think ...

In 2017, an interstellar object zipped through our solar system and instantly triggered the most predictable headline: aliens. But the real mystery wasn’t the shape—it was the motion. It accelerated ...

President Trump said he's directing the Pentagon and other federal agencies to identify and release files related to UFOs and extraterrestrial life.

Obama thinks extraterrestrials exist and he’s not the only former president to think so... here’s what the scientists believe ...

Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be ...

A new show at the Royal West of England Academy brings together a series of works that interweave art and science ...

Star-Crossed explores a forbidden romance between a human girl and an alien boy, set against a backdrop of prejudice and danger.

The 2000s gave us some of the best sci-fi movies of all time. We've picked the top of the crop and ranked them too. Did your ...

Is the scientific method really the best approach to learning about the world? A new paper in Collective Intelligence applies the scientific method to itself, finding that some common strategies that ...

Two of the best shows of this genre were Star Trek’s Deep Space Nine and the independent series, Babylon 5. Both series confront the harsh realities of war and occupation. Babylon 5 begins in the ...