Aliens appear to have made ‘first contact’ with a warning to save the Earth, boffins claim. Experts say they have deciphered messages written on a mysterious metal sphere which crashed in South ...

Is anybody out there? Probably. Most stars have planets; we've discovered more than 6,000 exoplanets thus far, and the most basic statistics point toward the existence of countless potentially ...

The Milky Way contains a modest amount of alien civilizations, a new paper proposes — and there's a reason we aren't seeing them.

Proponents of ancient alien theories point to megalithic structures, strange inscriptions, and myths of gods descending from the sky as possible evidence of extraterrestrial contact. They argue that ...

The findings suggest that the acquisition of the modern NOVA1 variant may have protected us from the detrimental effects of lead, promoting complex language development and social cohesion. This could ...

Lead poisoning isn't just a modern phenomenon: fossil teeth show signs that it affected ancient hominids, and Homo sapiens may have coped better than our close relatives ...