New research from Portland State University focused on identifying signs of life—biosignatures—in extreme environments here ...

which could be crucial in humanity's quest for alien life. The discovery has been hailed as significant for identifying a planet likely to have a magnetic field and offering a future technique to ...

NASA's alien planet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope is pretty good at its job, a new statistical analysis suggests. In total, the study, published Tuesday in the Astrophysical Journal, validates ...

Uranus' magnetic field acts in a very different way from other planets. Understanding its nature could be key to finding alien life in the future. You can read more about the scientists' findings ...

Retrofuturistic styling, synthetics with no regard for human life, and people being munched like popcorn — that's the Alien ...

“As the point of highest elevation on the planet, it is natural that any alien may want to land there,” says Richard Murray. But our visitors don’t even need to land on the summit. Anywhere ...

If you’re going to set a sci-fi movie on an alien planet, it’s a nice bonus if that planet actually exists. Or, at least, is inspired by one that actually exists. In the new film Ash ...