If intelligent life exists beyond Earth, we may be picturing the wrong kind of encounter. Most of us imagine other beings as ...

Astrophysicist and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson spills on his obsession with aliens and the best and worst ...

Ever notice that many alien species in Star Trek dress alike, believe the same things, and generally act the same way? Join ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist who is the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural ...

Scientists may have found a powerful new way to hunt for alien life — not by searching for specific molecules, but by looking for hidden patterns in how those molecules are organized. Researchers ...

Discovery could allow scientists to find signs of life without relying on particular special instruments, researchers suggest ...

An American scientist said people have portrayed aliens in a bad way but it could be the other way around. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has been studying astrophysics and the search for ...

For more than half a century, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been built ...

For decades, the search for life beyond Earth has revolved around a key question: What molecules should scientists be looking ...

Steven Spielberg's 2005 alien movie will soon be available to watch on Hulu. Marking the director's second collaboration with Tom Cruise, the film follows a man's desperate attempts to protect his ...

New UCR research shows that the search for life beyond Earth could benefit from a statistical approach that prioritizes ...

There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember. ” That line, attributed to Richard ...