Scientists are calling for a lunar quarantine facility where samples from Mars, the Moon, and beyond would be examined before being brought to Earth. They warn that even a tiny alien microorganism ...

Astronomers have sharply revised down the mass of nearby super Earth GJ 3378b, dramatically improving its prospects as a ...

A siphonophore—a colonial marine invertebrate related to the venomous stinging Portuguese Man-o-war—is scanned using Deep ...

Scientists suggest that advanced aliens might not have physical bodies, challenging traditional views of extraterrestrial ...

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The third episode of Sugar Season 2, titled “Watch Face,” addresses the cliffhanger from the previous week. John Sugar, the private investigator played by Colin Farrell, survives the drive-by shooting ...

The idea that octopuses might be aliens emerged from the theory of panspermia (Stelele 2018), according to which life on Earth is not entirely of terrestrial ...

Looking up at a clear, star-filled sky naturally prompts us to wonder how humanity came to exist on this tiny planet.

The first six months of 2026 have produced four stand-out sci-fi movies – and they all have one thing in common, says Bethan ...

A well-worn expression among oceanographers and others who explore the watery depths of planet Earth is that we humans “know the surface of Mars better than our ocean floors.” Covering more than 70 ...

In the book version of “Project Hail Mary,” author Andy Weir, known for grounding his fiction in plausible science, describes ...