Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

Ben Kinsley is a man who likes to dress up as a mushroom. For the past several years, he and his creative team of Riitta Ikonen and Jessica Langley have attended the Telluride Mushroom Festival, which ...

Mars might have its own defense mechanism against life from Earth, in a kind of reverse of "The War of the Worlds" scenario ...

Your home is crawling with life you can't see. Explore 18 fascinating microscopic beings that live in most houses, from dust mites to strange fungi.

After setting social media abuzz by saying on a podcast over the weekend that aliens were real, former President Barack Obama said he didn't see evidence that aliens "have made contact with us." ...

Liberal podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen defended his questioning of former President Barack Obama on Monday after the former president's response to a question about aliens went viral and revealed that ...

Obama thinks extraterrestrials exist and he’s not the only former president to think so... here’s what the scientists believe ...

Former US President Barack Obama said he’s seen no evidence that aliens have made contact with Earth, clarifying his position on extraterrestrials after comments he made in a podcast went viral. Obama ...

Some fungi are wasteful, while others recycle—and this can determine how much carbon is stored in a forest. Researchers at Lund University have now revealed how fungi manage their mycelium, the ...

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...

We may not have found any definitive proof of extraterrestrial life just yet, despite plenty of hope among scientists. But if we were to ever come to an answer in the form of alien biology or ...

Part of what makes some classics worthy of such a title is the ingenuity and borderline movie magic they employ to tell their story. In the case of "Alien," for example, director Ridley Scott used ...