For thousands of years, humanity has looked up at the stars asking the same question. Are we alone? Then one day, it finally ...

In virtual experiments, AI repeatedly misread dead digital organisms as self-replicating life.

Some of these approaches may show promise, but new research indicates much of today’s AI is even more easily duped by false ...

Are we alone in the universe? Consider mysterious "extraterrestrial" radio signals. Unexplained gases on other planets.

The story of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and the European Space Agency's Philae spacecraft just got a whole hell of a lot more interesting. After a semi-botched landing resulting in the spacecraft ...

There’s no data to suggest that aliens exist. However, if we believed they existed and came to Earth, our planet would offer them a somewhat risky buffet. There is liquid water, as well as salts, ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first episode opens with a familiar scenario. We witness a research ship in deep space carrying unknown alien organisms ...

The first episode opens with a familiar scenario. We witness a research ship in deep space carrying unknown alien organisms suddenly having an outbreak, with the aliens killing most of the crew. But ...