Avi Loeb, a Harvard astronomer who has made headlines with his theories about alien encounters, will lead a White House ...

A polarizing Harvard astronomer known for splashy theories about alien visits has been tapped by the Trump administration to lead a team of outside scientists to study the national security risks ...

A Harvard University cosmologist who has suggested alien life forms could be sailing into the solar system disguised as meteors is leading the Trump administration’s secretive new scientific advisory ...

Scientists propose a simple but powerful new method for detecting traces of alien biology, whether on Jupiter's icy moons, in meteorites or in Martian samples. (Nanowerk News) Before any wrinkled, ...

The question of whether humanity is alone in the universe has fascinated scientists for generations, but few have pursued an ...

Look to the west to catch Venus and Jupiter shining bright, with Saturn and Mars visible in the east for early risers, and ...

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 ...

On Earth, garnet is best known as the fiery red January birthstone—popular in jewelry since the Bronze Age and valued highly ...

A slice of the rare angrite meteorite NWA 12774 shows olivine crystal (green), a mineral rich in magnesium. John Kashuba A 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite found in the Sahara Desert could be evidence ...

12 years is a long wait to play the sequel to one of your favourite games of all time. During that decade-plus stretch, I’ve re-played the original Alien: Isolation multiple times, analysed its ...

A rare visitor from another star system prompted SETI to hunt for alien technology, but the mysterious object appears to be a ...