Science fiction often shows aliens with human features like eyes, limbs, and faces. But science has a reason for questioning this idea. Through convergent evolution, similar environments and physical ...

Is intelligent alien life really out there? With powerful telescopes identifying more potentially habitable planets each year ...

This is FRESH AIR. Noah Hawley has created successful, well-received television adaptations of the Coen brothers' movie "Fargo" - five seasons to date and counting - and of the Marvel comic book ...

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 ...

One common complaint about science fiction involving aliens, especially a large and diverse cast of different alien races, is that the aliens just aren't alien enough. It seems like every week, the ...