Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This article is more than 3 years old. The artists concept ...

With the beloved film turning 20 this year, director Dean Parisot and Lahnk the Thermian himself, Rainn Wilson, look back on the creation of the beloved aliens. In the pantheon of alien-oriented ...

If science fiction flicks have taught us anything, it's that when we eventually find an ultra-intelligent alien civilization they're going to have big, oval-shaped heads and huge bulging eyes. When ...

Our home galaxy is not a run-of-the-mill spiral, at least when it comes to chemistry. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers ...

Earthlings talk a lot about the possibility of life on other planets throughout the universe, but astrophysicists say in a new study that humans may have dozens of extraterrestrial neighbors in our ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. Is there intelligent life out there in the Milky Way beyond our own ...

To explore the galaxy and hunt for resources, intelligent aliens might need to turn their home stars into natural spaceships, a new paper suggests. A few known star systems might fit the bill. When ...