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.

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 ...

Many people who don’t believe one conspiracy theory about that station—known as the High-frequency Active Auroral Research ...

A viral podcast moment last month reignited speculation about extraterrestrials and prompted President Donald Trump’s commitment to kickstarting the release of government files on flying saucers. But ...

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

Katie Jackson desperately wants a new treatment for Huntington’s disease. Her husband died from the devastating brain disorder. And because the disease runs in families, her three children have a 50% ...

Phil Durst was standing by an industrial dishwasher at Johnny's Restaurant in Homewood, Alabama, telling its owner everything finally sounded alright, when he hit the button that emptied the machine.

Doctors and nurses have quietly operated informal, underground medical networks, dodging detection to care for patients at ...