New conspiracy theories suggest the CIA may have accessed DNA databases like 23andMe to search for alien-human hybrids.

Astrobiologists are raising concerns that humanity’s search for alien life may be limited by the very tools designed to find it.

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for ...

Watson's death last month prompted sci-fi columnist Emily H. Wilson to read his acclaimed 1973 debut and find out what she'd ...

The universe is vast and teeming with stars – but if intelligent life exists, it may not be able to visit Earth.

China’s artificial embryos are part of an experiment to learn more about how human pregnancies could develop under ...

Does the CIA have its own “Men in Black”? Apparently, the government isn’t disclosing everything it knows about UFOs. A ...

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new ...

Getting a clean bill of health from a medical scan doesn’t always mean you’re healthy – sometimes the scanner just missed it. The same problem applies to searching for life on other planets, and until ...

For decades, astrobiology has been guided by one haunting question: Are we alone in the universe? The field’s mission is to test the possibility of extraterrestrial life, but the search is anything ...

All eight episodes of The Boroughs dropped on Netflix today, May 21, 2026, and the show’s central horror device — spider-like monsters crawling through underground tunnels at night to siphon ...

Three days into the 79th Cannes Film Festival, the competition’s first potential blockbuster arrived without warning and ...