The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...

Hidden within Cassiopeia A, the youngest known exploded star in our galaxy, astronomers have found surprisingly high levels of chlorine and potassium. These elements carry an odd number of protons in ...

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Artist concept of a cloudy Earth-like exoplanet with colorful biota in the clouds. Credit: Adam B. Langeveld/Carl Sagan Institute. Adapted from NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech An exoplanet completely or densely ...

A team of scientists from Shenzhen University in China has discovered the first evidence of a new type of cave on the Red Planet. The researchers claim these may have once provided the conditions ...

We have insects, birds, fish and even intelligent, bipedal mammals right here on Earth. But what could be beyond Earth? The likelihood of extraterrestrial intelligent life has been subject to the ...

Aliens are a tried and true staple of sci-fi, an element that invites fear and horror, but which can open itself to wonder, discovery, and statements on the human condition just as readily. Alien ...

'This is a special gig for me.' Puppeteer Keith Arbuthnot displays his expert performance capture skills that bring the extraterrestrial to life in this behind-the-scenes featurette. When you purchase ...

Four billion years ago, the first aliens arrived — not in ships, but as microscopic passengers on cosmic debris. This is the story of panspermia, the theory that life began not on Earth, but far ...

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As Alien: Earth heads into its season finale, The Eye (or T. Ocellus if you nasty) has been the show’s MVP and Chekov’s gun. There’s no way that thing wasn’t going to infect someone with wild results, ...

Meteorite reaching earth. Credits: Navicore, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons A strange object found by a man in Panama has sparked a wave of curiosity and debate online, as videos of what he claims ...