Machine learning is quietly rewriting the rules of the cosmic hunt for company. Instead of waiting to recognize familiar ...

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Before the blood-chilling monster in "Alien" was designed by H.R. Giger, a couple of other ideas were considered that were ...

A new study theorizes that evolution ticks at different speeds, especially when a big group of organisms first appears.

While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.

It’s a rerun of both the second and first movies, and is as dull as hell, except for the first third of the film.

The research is mounting up that we might not be alone in this big wide world. So what's the likelihood that aliens are out ...

Some big sci-fi names are making their return to the gaming landscape this year, with Halo: Campaign Evolved and Dawn of War ...

Pocock, a space scientist at University College London and BBC presenter, predicts alien life will be found by 2075 but likely as 'grey sludge' ...

Mission to investigate whether tiny organisms live in ocean volcanoes on icy Enceladus planned by European Space Agency ...

Europa has a vast, saltwater ocean beneath its icy shell, with more than twice the amount of water in all of Earth’s oceans ...

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...