Thanks to the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 premiere, Martians have now been properly introduced to the Trek ...

A lot of the alien races in the Star Trek universe are humanoid, and the original series explained that fact way back in the late 1960s.

Modern astrobiology suggests that alien life would not evolve randomly, but under the same ruthless evolutionary pressures that shaped life on Earth. Scientists expect traits like symmetry, vision, ...

For generations, science fiction has imagined what life might look like on other worlds. These aliens are fictional, sure, but some of them are informed by real evolutionary processes on Earth. That’s ...

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