This deep dive tours fictional worlds ranging from a tidally-locked planet crawling with giant slow-moving "starfish" to a gas giant where whale-sized animals float through the sky.

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For decades, humanity has transmitted signals into deep space, hoping another civilization might hear them. But some ...

Deep beneath the oceans' crashing waves lies a hidden landscape more alien than many of us could ever dream. Below the ...

These videos feature a spookfish so alien that it seems like a sci-fi concoction, as well as thermal vents spewing life-forming materials into the depths of the Atlantic ...

A planet with one side permanently roasting and the other frozen in endless darkness might still have a chance of supporting life. Researchers found that heat inside a tidally locked exoplanet could ...

The “Wow!” signal is one of our best pieces of evidence for aliens, but researchers are building a compelling case for a more natural source. In a series of papers, astronomers have compared the "Wow!

Military and commercial pilots are increasingly treated as star witnesses in UFO debates, but psychologists warn their dramatic testimonies cannot, on their own, prove alien visitors.

From red carpets to global runways, the designer's sculptural creations are pushing the boundaries of Indian fashion and ...

Astronomers have revised the mass of nearby exoplanet GJ 3378 b, recasting it as a rocky super‑Earth in the habitable zone ...

As the band release their 10th album, its frontman talks about the human need for a higher power - from AI to aliens - and how personal turmoil inspired a new creative streak ...

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 ...