Lisa Spear is a science writing fellow at Newsweek. She's previously contributed to a number of other outlets including Time and PBS Frontline. She most recently worked as a health reporter for the ...

A civilization capable of interstellar travel may also be one that has moved beyond conquest, excess and ecological ...

We may be missing alien radio signals because they have become smeared beyond the narrowband detectors that SETI utilizes, a new study suggests.

If we're to find extraterrestrial life in the universe, astronomers have pinpointed the best places to look for it. They have ...

Ryan Gosling's "Project Hail Mary" costar is a high-maintenance creature with his own "glam squad." The actor introduces us to Rocky, a lovable alien.

The actor plays a molecular biologist trying to help save the world in this upbeat science-fiction fantasy from Phil Lord and ...

The cross-species friendship powers this touching film from Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. It has been described as 'E.T.' meets 'Interstellar' but that doesn't hint at its humanity.

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about modern anxieties than the past itself?

Debunking alien claims matters, but so does telling richer, more compelling stories about how humans shaped their own past.

A review of 'Project Hail Mary' with Ryan Gosling back on a mission to space, but this time alone and on a mission to save ...

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Roughly 66 million years ago, scientists believe an enormous meteor, dubbed Chicxulub, smashed into the Earth in an extinction-level event that wiped out 75 percent of life, including the vast ...