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 ...

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

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

When we imagine alien life, we picture monsters, insects, or tentacles—but what if the most realistic aliens are human-like? Evolution tends to solve the same problems with similar designs, and ...

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 ...

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, ...

What happens when you combine the expensive disappointment of bipedal robots with the ethical minefield of brain interface devices? Apparently we’re about to find out, at least according to ...

Humans have created countless inventions that shape our lives in amazing ways. Some are practical, some are revolutionary, and some are simply fascinating. But if aliens suddenly appeared, which ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...