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

Award winning duo James S. A. Corey show humanity’s struggle with staggering alien power in their latest installment of the ...

Behind the acid blood and jump scares of the Alien franchise is an even more insidious horror: a single employer with ...

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

NASA officials have previously spoken of the possibility of extraterrestrial life amid scientific uncertainty while ...

The “alien” is actually a potato. Specifically, it is a purple tuber nicknamed Spudnik-1, grown and photographed by Pettit.

Chinese scientists' claims that their "Sky Eye" telescope could have picked up signals from intelligent aliens have been met with skepticism by an American colleague. Map shows next states to get hit ...

Deep within massive rocky exoplanets, hidden oceans of molten rock may be generating powerful magnetic fields in an ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. [CLIP: The spaceship Hail Mary’s operating system (played by Priya Kansara) speaks in ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising way to study the harsh space weather around young M dwarf stars. Mysterious dips in starlight turned out to be massive rings of plasma swirling in the stars’ ...