This video explores whether alien life would really need DNA, or whether that assumption is just a product of Earth’s own biology. By looking at RNA worlds, alternative genetic molecules like XNAs, ...

Anthony Salvanto, Ph.D., is CBS News' executive director of elections and surveys. He oversees the CBS News Poll and all surveys across topics and heads the CBS News Decision Desk that estimates ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray points to a video display of a UAP during a hearing of the House ...

We are not alone in space – and maybe not even on Earth. At least that's what the public believes. Most Americans believe intelligent life exists on other planets, and one in five think they've ...

Scientists say moons around rogue planets wandering through the galaxy could remain warm enough for life thanks to tidal heating and hydrogen-rich atmospheres. These dark, starless worlds may have had ...

Oliver Tree, the California-born singer-songwriter known for tracks like “Life Goes On,” “When I’m Down” and “Miss You,” died in a helicopter crash in Rio de Janeiro, according to CNN Brazil. He was ...

Most Americans believe that aliens exist — and more than one in five think they’ve already paid our planet a visit, according to an out-of-this world new poll. Some 63% of Americans said they’re ...

12 years is a long wait to play the sequel to one of your favourite games of all time. During that decade-plus stretch, I’ve re-played the original Alien: Isolation multiple times, analysed its ...

Are humans alone in the universe? The answer is more complicated than science fiction might suggest. Scientists have discovered billions upon billions of potentially habitable planets. But if life is ...

The United States government’s recent release of hundreds of previously classified Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) cases spanning the 1940s to the present, along with the new Steven Spielberg ...