It’s a beautiful night. Just you, a bottle of wine and your partner drifting through the cosmos in a UFO. As your caress their green skin, you know that tonight’s the night you’re mating with an alien ...

What would aliens actually look like? While simple life forms like bacteria may be common in the universe, complex intelligent life is likely rare. Movies often depict aliens as human-like, which is ...

The San-Ti are a technologically advanced alien race that live on a chaotic, dying world. Their home is part of a system of ...

For generations, science fiction has imagined what life might look like on other worlds. These aliens are fictional, sure, but some of them are informed by real evolutionary processes on Earth. That’s ...

Quiz: Do you know your aliens? TENTACLED monsters, pale skinny humanoids, shimmery beings of pure energy… When it comes to the question of what alien life forms might look like, we are free to let our ...

For generations, science fiction has imagined what life might look like on other worlds. Novelist H.G. Wells described nightmarish squid-like Martian invaders in The War of the Worlds, while the ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life. Tardigrades—a type of invertebrate ...