Former President Obama said he did not see evidence that aliens “have made contact with us,” after sending social media abuzz ...

For decades, scientists have searched the skies for signs of extraterrestrial technology. A study from EPFL asks a sharp question: if alien signals have already reached Earth without us noticing, what ...

A financial crisis could be triggered by an announcement that aliens exist, according to Helen McCaw, a former policy expert of the Bank of England. McCaw told The Times of London that politicians and ...

Generative AI is biology’s new playground. The technology powering popular chatbots can also dream up new, entirely novel versions of life’s most basic molecules, from DNA to proteins. Once the domain ...

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.

This story first appeared in Trying!, a thoughtful, funny, wide-ranging daily newsletter featuring essays from the mind of Matt Gross. You can sign up for them here. Those were simple aliens for ...

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 ...

What if the story of human origins isn’t as human as we think? This video explores the theory that parts of our DNA may have extraterrestrial roots — passed down from organisms that came to Earth long ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images) A new genetic study claims alien DNA could be inserted into humans. Dr. Max ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening ...