If forced to choose one descriptor for the octopus, the best word may be “otherworldly.” These truly amazing marine animals ...

Introduction -- Form vs function : what is common across worlds? -- What are animals and what are aliens? -- Movement - scuttling and gliding across space -- Communication channels -- Intelligence ...

Alien: Earth showrunner Noah Hawley clearly didn’t think the franchise was doing enough with the implications of its title. Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) imagined the kind of nightmare lifeforms that ...

When observed at normal speed, species of sea cucumbers loosely known as “sea pigs” (such as the genus Scotoplanes) slowly ambulate across the darkest depths of the oceanic abyss. But when sped up, ...

Thursday’s trailer includes several haunting shots of violence and destruction on the crashed spaceship, including evidence that the humans on board were attacked by facehuggers. That’s about what ...

“He likes the sheep,” Samuel Blenkin tells Polygon. “He thinks the sheep's kind of cool.” For Blenkin, who plays the petulant trillionaire genius Boy Kavalier, the sheep was also an excellent scene ...

I absolutely adore Xenomorphs in all their forms. I love facehuggers, chestbursters, not-yet-full-grown "teen-omorphs," and of course, I love giant, double-mouthed, razor-tailed adult Xenomorphs in ...

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) focuses on finding technosignatures—potential signs of alien technology. If we look carefully, we might have a chance at detecting their ...