From the ugly to the awesome to the downright weird, Hollywood has brought a whole cosmos' worth of alien characters to the silver screen — but what do we know about the human beings who portrayed ...

With Seth MacFarlane teasing a (hopeful) season four (someday), here are the must-watch episodes of his underrated sci-fi series.

Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the ...

A new psychedelic retreat calling itself a “SETI for the mind” aims to establish two-way communication with the nonhuman entities people encounter while tripping on DMT.

Many have speculated that humanity’s rapid rise in intelligence and culture might not have been entirely natural. The uplift hypothesis asks whether an advanced alien civilization could have nudged ...

Humans have practiced head shaping for tens of thousands of years, and anthropologists are beginning to uncover clues as to ...

We may be missing alien radio signals because they have become smeared beyond the narrowband detectors that SETI utilizes, a new study suggests.

Researchers discovered evidence of advanced surgery on a 2,500-year-old skull from the ancient Pazyryk culture of southern ...

A review of 'Project Hail Mary' with Ryan Gosling back on a mission to space, but this time alone and on a mission to save humanity from impending doom.

Over hundreds of thousands of years, humans somehow evolved a type of intelligence found nowhere else in the animal kingdom, at least on Earth. According to the most famous theory describing the ...

A 56-year-old man with liver failure has become the first living person to be surgically connected to a genetically modified ...

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...