Bring up aliens and a lot of people will scoff. But not everyone is laughing. Around the turn of the century, 3.8 million people banded together in a real-time search for aliens -- with screensavers.

If so, why haven’t they said hello? The humble residents of this pale blue dot have been on a quest to find an alien civilisation for more than a century. First, it was the “canals” of Mars. Then ...

This November, the Predator returns to the big-screen in Dan Trachtenberg’s Predator: Badlands. Since the release of the original film back in 1987, the alien trophy hunter has become a pop culture ...

Why Enceladus is suddenly the prime alien‑life target Enceladus has vaulted to the front of the astrobiology queue because it offers something rare in the outer Solar System: direct access to material ...