The idea that octopuses might be aliens emerged from the theory of panspermia (Stelele 2018), according to which life on Earth is not entirely of terrestrial ...

The octopus is one of the strangest animals ever to evolve. With 500 million neurons—most of them located in its eight arms ...

Case in point: Scientists from Tokyo University and Hokkaido University in Japan stumbled across some mysterious jet-black ...

Rare 160-million-year-old sea spider fossils from Southern France look nearly identical to living species, revealing a body ...

Scarlett Dargan imagines this week's generational debate ...

With three hearts, blue blood and arms that appear to think independently, the octopus may be one of Earth’s strangest creatures—rewriting what scientists thought intelligence.

As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters ...

Here's a question that sounds like science fiction but is being asked in deadly earnest by serious philosophers. Does ...

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself resurfaces: if aliens were to arrive on Earth, would they come to conquer us, ...

Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi blockbuster is a non-stop thrill ride, but did it convince you that we are not alone?