A celebration of how alien yet relatable so many of the creatures that live among us can be. Bruce Elder shares with us his ...

The imaginary constructions of science fiction fill us with awe at their alien vastness. Which have you explored, and what was the most overwhelming?

Alien-hunting telescopes have peered at the mysterious star KIC8462852 and are quickly unraveling the theory that this star could ...

Alien-hunters trained massive telescopes on a mysterious star last year after it started ‘dimming’ – hinting that something ...

There's a prosaic explanation for at least some of the weirdness of "Tabby's star," it would appear. The bizarre long-term ...

Named by some as the ‘most mysterious star in the universe’, KIC 8462852 or Tabby’s Star has been keeping astronomers and ...

A rendering of a potential Dyson sphere, named after Freeman A. Dyson. As proposed by the physicist and astromomer decades ago ...

Alien civilizations may have left traces. We just may not have been looking in the right place.