A handful of Republicans called for a deeper investigation into federal immigration tactics after a U.S. Border Patrol agent ...

Planets that once lived only in pulp novels and movie concept art are now turning up in real data. Astronomers are not just finding distant worlds, they are cataloguing places with molten surfaces, ...

U.S. Rep. Max Miller assures constituents that immigration agents are focused on criminals, but a Washington Post analysis ...

On Earth, deep-sea vents may have given rise to the planet’s first life. But nothing of the sort seems to be happening at the ...

Discover the role and regulations of alien insurers, companies that offer insurance policies outside their home country, and how they differ from foreign insurers.

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

If aliens are out there, why haven’t we heard from them? That’s the question at the center of Pop Mech’s new story, “Aliens Probably Exist—But They’re Staying Silent For a Reason, NASA Scientist ...

Sigourney Weaver has shared some new thoughts about why Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5 never happened. Weaver played Ellen Ripley in Ridley Scott’s Alien, which was released in 1979. She then went on to ...

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...

For years, there was chatter online about District 9 director Neill Blomkamp's plans for Alien 5. The plan was for Ripley and Newt to return, making up for the missteps made with the characters in ...