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

In a recent SETI Live conversation, astronomer and Drake Award winner Dr. Jason Wright addressed that question through the ...

Assembly Theory shifts the search for life from identifying specific molecules to measuring chemical complexity, offering a ...

James Cameron tells Scientific American how his latest documentary, Secrets of the Bees, reveals an intimate view of the ...

Finding life beyond our solar system goes beyond measuring an exoplanet's size, as rocky, Earth-sized worlds might not have ...

Halfway through Space Is the Place, Sun Ra muses that scientists are fed on research while Black people have been fed on ...

Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist," the biggest names in artificial intelligence discuss a future full of potential and risk.

The new science fiction film adaptation leans heavily on real science done by the National Aeronautics and Space ...

Vice President JD Vance threw out a piece of catnip for UFO fans during an interview with podcaster Benny Johnson on Friday, ...

Following the pinnacle of the genre in the ‘80s and the spectacle-driven action of the ‘90s, the past two decades have seen ...

"Project Hail Mary," starring Ryan Gosling as a scientist named Ryland Grace who befriends an alien in space, is already ...

Sightings in Varginha in 1996 have been dismissed as hoax, but saga continues to draw people from around world ...