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 ...

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

Imagine a planet orbiting the largest known star, Stevenson 218. This video explores the tantalizing scientific possibility of alien worlds around a red supergiant. We examine the challenges of ...

Want to be a top notch candidate for hosting alien life? Then there's a few key requirements you should be aware of: Ideally, you're a large object like a moon or a planet; scientists suspect you also ...

The Xenomorph from the Alien franchise is having quite the comeback lately. First, in last year’s surprisingly good Alien: Romulus, then in this year’s Alien: Earth. So it’s no surprise that one-man ...

Every aspect of the finished Xenomorph sculpt is spot on. Even the chrome paint used for the creature’s teeth gives it that final cinematic touch. We think even the Xenomorph’s original designer ...

A team of scientists from Shenzhen University in China has discovered the first evidence of a new type of cave on the Red Planet. The researchers claim these may have once provided the conditions ...

Scientists have just uncovered new evidence that Saturn’s moon Enceladus might be hiding alien life beneath its frozen surface. Thanks to data from NASA’s Cassini mission, researchers detected heat ...

The original Alien was the cinematic birth of a nightmare. When Ridley Scott set out to bring Alien to life, he turned to the dark imagination of H.R. Giger, whose surreal biomechanical illustrations ...

We have insects, birds, fish and even intelligent, bipedal mammals right here on Earth. But what could be beyond Earth? The likelihood of extraterrestrial intelligent life has been subject to the ...