One night about 60 years ago, physicist Enrico Fermi looked up into the sky and asked, "Where is everybody?" He was talking about aliens. Today, scientists know that there are millions, perhaps ...

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

Musk compared consciousness to a candle in a “vast darkness" during remarks about aliens at the World Economic Forum in Davos ...

Communication with non-intelligent entities has nearly been impossible for humans. However, a group of Australian scientists ...

When we imagine alien life, we picture monsters, insects, or tentacles—but what if the most realistic aliens are human-like?

Elon Musk has turned a long-running joke about being an extraterrestrial into a central part of his public persona, even as ...

A Harvard professor of astronomy is predicting extraterrestrials will make contact with artificial intelligence before humans, due to aliens potentially feeling a “kinship” with human technology. “My ...

A Harvard professor of astronomy is predicting extraterrestrials will make contact with artificial intelligence before humans, due to aliens potentially feeling a "kinship" with human technology. "My ...

Scientists are studying bees’ surprising maths skills to explore whether numbers could be a universal language for communicating with aliens, offering fresh insights into intelligence beyond Earth.

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 ...

What if the little green men that are commonly perceived as a typical "alien" are really just humans, but from a different period in the evolutionary timeline?