Phil Lord and Christopher Miller turn Bay Area author Andy Weir's novel "Project Hail Mary" into a terrific science fiction popcorn movie.

Theoretically, it’s impossible for us to perceive a 4D creature. That is, unless it broke into our three-dimensional reality.

The cuttlefish may be one of the strangest animals in the ocean. With specialized skin cells called chromatophores, it can change color and pattern almost instantly, blending into its surroundings or ...

More than 40% of extant large freshwater animals (megafauna), including carp, salmonids, crocodilians, turtles, beavers, and ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

By manipulating animals to do wonderful things, we may become numb to their real wonder.

In the movie Hoppers, scientists “hop” human consciousness into animal-like robots to talk to other species. We asked the ...

A new psychedelic retreat calling itself a “SETI for the mind” aims to establish two-way communication with the nonhuman entities people encounter while tripping on DMT.

Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the ...

What does Judaism say about space aliens? While the question might seem like the beginning of a Purim joke, the truth is that rabbis in every generation are asked to wrestle with traditional Jewish ...

Representative Nancy Mace has introduced new legislation that would make migrants without legal status who are convicted of animal cruelty offenses subject to deportation under federal immigration law ...