Many MetroSpirituals feel different, but are not sure how or why. Some feel they don’t really belong here. Perhaps it’s because Earth has not always been their home planet. It’s not as farfetched as ...

We know about DNA on Earth. What would carry the genetic code elsewhere? In a recent paper published in the journal Astrobiology, Steven Benner from the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution in ...

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 ...

Alien abductions have been rumoured to occur for decades, and now a study has claimed that extraterrestrial beings have been using this method to insert genes into human DNA. The study, which has yet ...

Before the media frenzy, before the documentary about aliens, before her bone fragments were ground up for DNA analysis, she was a girl. She was tiny when she died. Six inches. Perhaps she was ...

On 13 July 2016, the website IFLScience posted an article with an intentionally absurd headline: "Marijuana Contains 'Alien DNA' from Outside of Our Solar System, NASA Confirms." The article actually ...

Life has spent the past few billion years working with a narrow vocabulary. Now researchers have broken those rules, adding extra letters to biology's limited lexicon. Chemist Floyd Romesberg of the ...

Octopuses are weird. This is not just because they look odd. It’s not because they’re disturbingly smart. It’s because they have a strange power. The ability to edit their own bodies. This has ...

Zecharia Sitchin says he's willing to stake everything he's written about alien astronauts on DNA tests that could be performed on the 4,500-year-old remains of a high-ranking Sumerian woman. It's the ...

The body was in a bag on a shelf in a house next to a church in a small, abandoned nitrate mining town in the Atacama Desert of Chile. It was dry, mummified, largely intact, had the proportions of an ...

When astronomers search the skies for signs of alien life, they tend to focus on planets that are relatively similar to Earth. But while looking for the kinds of life we know exist is a good place to ...