The leading UFO expert Nick Pope reportedly claimed before his death that the government was deliberately keeping information ...

Dark Eden, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, takes place on a rogue planet outside the Milky Way.

Alien life may not need the kind of home humans instinctively search for. Some of the strangest possibilities begin once ...

Comets carried potential ingredients for life, but new models suggest atmospheric breakup, impact heat and dilution made ...

Scientists have pieced together a pretty clear picture of what life was like on Earth thousands, even millions of years ago.

On planet Earth, our 'secondary atmosphere' has been with us for billions of years and its chemical balance reflects the ...

Finding alien life could shake some people to their very souls, but different religions can take very distinct approaches to ...

From Edward Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang to the “ecotage” novels of today, literature helps us grapple with the enormity of the planet’s crisis—and how far we’d go to solve it.

It’s only natural for us to think about life beyond the stars, wondering if there’s any other form of intelligent beings out ...

The future of the search for extraterrestrial life may lie in statistical methods, as Abigail Williams discovers ...

Suppose aliens existed, and that some had been watching our planet for its entire forty-five million centuries, what would ...

In ancient mythology, the phoenix was a miraculous bird with a cyclical pattern of life and death, perishing in flames only to rise again from the ashes. Astronomers have now found a world that ...