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Aliens in Our Imagination: Friendly or Frightening? From the pointy ears of the Vulcans to the razor-sharp teeth of the ...

The curious minds at What If explore what would happen if there is alien life on Jupiter's moon Europa.

On Earth, life thrives in some of the most seemingly inhospitable environments. Single-celled organisms like bacteria teem in the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park, where temperatures reach ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If life exists elsewhere in the universe, researchers at the University of Washington are finding the clues on Earth to help ...

Suppose there are signs of extraterrestrial life and we have not yet been able to detect them. What does that mean? In Nature Astronomy, researchers discuss the consequences of these so-called ...

When a scientific controversy or breakthrough dominates headlines, press officers and journalists often quote a handful of expertS ...

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 ...

There are billions of potentially habitable planets out there, so why haven’t we seen signs of life beyond the solar system? Perhaps because the aliens have all destroyed themselves. A new analysis of ...

Multi-billion-dollar space telescope programs aren't only feats of aerospace engineering. They also feature "lies, damn lies, and statistics." Or at least statistics. They definitely feature those, as ...