Venus sits just one step closer to the Sun than Earth, making it our nearest planetary neighbor. At certain points in its ...

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

For generations, science fiction has imagined what life might look like on other worlds. Novelist H.G. Wells described nightmarish squid-like Martian invaders in The War of the Worlds, while the ...

Christian apologist Frank Turek has told students in Tennessee that the discovery of aliens would not topple Christianity, ...