'Star Trek: Enterprise' Season 2 featured an episode that would go on to unknowingly flesh out 'Starfleet Academy's premise.

Sputnik skies to analysis of interstellar visitors, scientists are rethinking how and where to look for physical traces of ...

Consciousness could be a fundamental part of reality, like gravity or matter, according to this controversial theory.

Mosquitoes transmit diseases like dengue, Zika, and malaria, making this shift a significant public health concern.

If aliens from space can die and mourn their dead then they likely invented gods to worship. Because they missed their loved ...

For this installment of "From the Archives," we answer a reader question about the monk parakeets and grackles in Austin.

ADVANCED alien civilisations might be talking to each other across the vast reaches of space using a “firefly” technique.

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in the journal Leonardo, our thought experiment lends weight to the idea that ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

Humanity is on the way to confirming the existence of non-human entities and making contact with aliens within the next 50 years, as predicted by a leading British space scientist. According to Dame ...

The truth is out there — and late President George H.W. Bush apparently knew it — telling a federal official that an alien made contact with humans at a secretive New Mexico air base in 1964, ...