At first glance, the Drake Equation looks like a hopeful scientific tool. In reality, it leads to disturbing possibilities about isolation, extinction, and survival. This breakdown explains the ...

For decades, scientists have searched the skies for signs of alien civilizations. This breakdown looks at why that approach may be outdated. If intelligence naturally leads to artificial intelligence, ...

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Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on extrapolating extinctions from the past 500 years into the future and the idea ...

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 ...

Alien: Earth definitely gets a lot right, but after watching the season 1 finale, I'm torn, because it gets a lot of things wrong, too. There's clear commitment to certain aspects of the Alien ...

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We may not be living through Earth’s sixth mass extinction event ­­— at least not yet. That’s the conclusion of a new analysis of plant and animal extinctions published September 4 in PLOS Biology.