A lot of the alien races in the Star Trek universe are humanoid, and the original series explained that fact way back in the ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life.

Hideously bloated slug-like aliens could be coming to "wipe out" humans in a "Star Wars" invasion, an Oxford University biologist has warned. If the universe is teeming with life as he expects, these ...

When astrobiologists are asked what aliens might look like, many now point not to distant galaxies but to some of the strangest corners of Earth, where researchers on several continents are using ...

The human race is rather introverted, apparently (Picture: Getty/Metro) ET could be phoning home, but we’re ghosting him, a new study has suggested. But why alien life has yet to be discovered could ...

Early cinema depicted aliens as human-like for familiarity and practical reasons, but modern science fiction explores ...