In these science fiction books, extraterrestrial beings are sympathetic, horrifying and everything in between.

"It really bent your mind." The Artemis astronauts’ reflections echo a long described change that occurs when humans are ...

Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak has begun acting a little unusually, but there are likely natural explanations before we go ...

Adapted from a novel by Andy Weir and directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, “Project Hail Mary” is marketed as the ...

If the government confirms nonhuman intelligence, psychological research offers clues about the range of ways humans might ...

Based on hard science fiction, a genre that prioritizes scientific accuracy, the blockbuster gets a lot right but misses a ...

These findings suggest that the absence of past detections does not mean discovery is imminent. If extraterrestrial ...

In a recent SETI Live conversation, astronomer and Drake Award winner Dr. Jason Wright addressed that question through the ...

Well, one NASA scientist certainly seems to think there's a chance. Ivo Busko, a retired NASA developer who worked at the ...

The question of whether aliens have a grasp of physics is also brought up in Andy Weir’s novel Project Hail Mary [Ed – see page 26 for a review of the film]. Though Rocky’s species, the aliens in the ...

Astronomers have narrowed down the cosmic search for life, identifying fewer than 50 rocky planets among thousands of known exoplanets that may have the right conditions to support life. Using new ...

The odds of a hostile close encounter have reportedly never been higher in the Big Apple. New York was named the third most likely place to get abducted in the US, according to gambling guide ...