Within the lifetimes of today’s teenagers, some of the world’s most respected researchers now say the discovery of alien life is not just possible but likely. The claim that we could confirm life ...

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Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life. Tardigrades—a type of invertebrate ...

In these science fiction books, extraterrestrial beings are sympathetic, horrifying and everything in between. By James S.A. Corey James S.A. Corey is the pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, the ...

In your Editor’s Pick letter titled “Why esoteric science could be overlooked by aliens”, the writer thinks that spacefaring aliens might not know about relativity and quantum mechanics because it is ...