The New Science of Exobiology Gone are the days when the search for life beyond Earth was confined to science fiction movies ...

The question of whether aliens exist is not a new one. In science fiction films and books, people have wondered if we’re the only life in this universe and what that can imply for universes beyond ...

On a 1964 mission to study deep waters in the Antarctic, the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) research vessel Eltanin ...

Astronomers may have been listening for alien civilizations in only a small slice of the radio spectrum while overlooking a largely unexplored range of higher frequencies. Using archived data from the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about education, edtech and higher education. Samples tested for toxic metals at a lab of Columbia University in New York, ...

In these science fiction books, extraterrestrial beings are sympathetic, horrifying and everything in between. By James S.A. Corey James S.A. Corey is the pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, the ...

A lot of folks, human and otherwise, seem very interested in getting their hands on the newly crash-landed alien specimens. What could go wrong? By Sean T. Collins The “Alien” franchise explores two ...