For more than a century, popular culture has trained us to picture extraterrestrials as bug-eyed, bipedal “little green men” ...

If humans should ever make contact with an advanced alien species, they might not be the humanoid creatures that we’ve come to expect. According to Seth Shostak, an astronomer with the SETI Institute, ...

If alien life is out there, what do you think it’s like? I was sur­prised how often that question led astronomers and astrobiologists to talk about machines. Not the machines aliens might use, or the ...

16:48, Tue, Nov 15, 2016 Updated: 16:57, Tue, Nov 15, 2016 Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) institute, one of the globe’s leading alien hunting ...

17:20, Thu, Dec 8, 2016 Updated: 17:25, Thu, Dec 8, 2016 Machine learning software, based on the algorithms used by Google and Netflix, has joined the hunt for aliens. The computer has the ability to ...

Scientists hope to discover if our planet was teeming with ‘protein nanomachines’ which ‘catalyzed and supported the development of living things’ (Picture: Nasa) We arrogant humans consider ourselves ...

Extraterrestrials that are intelligent enough to reach us 'would have become mechanised beings' to beat disease and hunger ALIENS are more likely to be MACHINES than biological creatures, an expert ...

Our smartest machines look nothing like we predicted – has the field lost its way, or do we need to rethink what AI actually means, asks Tom Chatfield. Would modern artificial intelligence live up to ...

The mysteries of Alien: Earth are still being revealed to those of us watching at home, and the show's third episode gave us a sense of where the series might be headed. One line, in particular, stood ...