Northwestern University engineers have developed the first modular robots with athletic intelligence. They can be combined and recombined in the wild, recover from injury and keep moving no matter ...

Do aliens exist? Few debates have proved as enduring – or as divisive – as the question of whether there is life beyond Earth.

Stellar plasma can smear alien radio signals before they escape their star system, making them harder for astronomers to detect.

War Machine works because it never loses sight of the people at its core. It’s a reminder that even when the odds are ...

In Amiri’s calculations, Dyson spheres around white dwarfs tend to produce cooler, fainter thermal emission that peaks in the near- to mid-infrared, while M-dwarf cases can radiate more strongly but ...

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 ...

Advanced aliens could be chatting with each other using light flashes in plain sight, similar to how fireflies communicate, according to a new study that could lead to new approaches in finding ...

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

3I/ATLAS has passed its closest point to Earth, meaning we will soon lose sight of it for good. Some scientists want to send a spacecraft to chase down the alien comet — or the next interstellar ...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced their agents are targeting criminal illegal aliens roaming free on Louisiana streets, some considered "the worst of the worst." Some critics ...