Steven Spielberg says he is now convinced that alien life has 'visited Earth,' a shift he links directly to recent US ...

For generations, the search for life beyond Earth has focused on avoiding one of science’s biggest mistakes: claiming a ...

US firm Vast is developing spinning space stations with artificial gravity to keep astronauts healthy on deep-space missions ...

To travel between solar systems, a spacecraft would need extremely sophisticated – if not impossible – technology.

EVE HEWSON: (As Jane Blankenship) What are you going to do? O'CONNOR: (As Dr. Daniel Kellner) Full disclosure to the whole world. FLORIDO: It is the latest film that Spielberg has directed about ...

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist ...

Steven Spielberg's new film “Disclosure Day” explores extraterrestrial life and its impact on religion. UFOs, now also called ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Over the past decade, scientists have come up with a variety of frameworks to guide ...

A research team has developed a new approach to detecting life beyond Earth that does not rely on identifying specific biological markers. Instead, the study suggests that life may be detectable ...

Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day may be grounded in some truth after all. Fans have long believed that the movie was made to ...

We have no idea what kind of life may exist on other planets, so it’s hard to know what to look for. Proxima Kósmos imagines a very different kind of solar system that could harbor life-forms we haven ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life. Tardigrades—a type of invertebrate ...