We talk to astronomer Professor Jon Willis about what form alien life may take based on evidence we find on Earth ...

News stories about the likely existence of extraterrestrial life, and our chances of detecting it, tend to be positive. We are often told that we might discover it any time now. Finding life beyond ...

Things on Earth are already pretty chaotic at the moment and an alien invasion is frankly the last thing we need. But according to some scientists, a potentially hostile alien threat could soon arrive ...

One of the unexpected joys of having small children is having to adjust your mindset to the pace and contours of how they experience the world. Unencumbered by the frameworks and presuppositions that ...

Now a former CIA scientist has claimed that the US government secretly knows about at least four different types of alien ...

The scientific community tends to employ ‘confidence of life’ detection scales: a multi-step ‘ladder’ that begins with ...

To travel between solar systems, a spacecraft would need extremely sophisticated – if not impossible – technology.

Grey squirrels, Sitka spruce, ash dieback disease and Japanese knotweed are all highly damaging invasive alien species in Ireland. Among other impacts, invasive species threaten nature, impact on food ...

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An American scientist said people have portrayed aliens in a bad way but it could be the other way around. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has been studying astrophysics and the search for ...

Humanity often ponders the nature of alien life, but rarely considers the inverse: what would extraterrestrials think of us? For theoretical physicist Avi Loeb, the answer is bleak. "If I were looking ...