Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got ...

Are we alone in the universe? Consider mysterious "extraterrestrial" radio signals. Unexplained gases on other planets.

Milly Alcock stars as Kara in ‘Supergirl,’ which reveals the tragic origin story of Superman’s heavy-drinking cousin.

As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters of the Third Kind contact humans using music and lights, but the director ...

A lot of the alien races in the Star Trek universe are humanoid, and the original series explained that fact way back in the late 1960s.

Frieza is single-handedly one of the most interesting villains in the whole Dragon Ball franchise. Introduced during Dragon Ball Z and returning in later iterations, Frieza was one of the most ...

What's bigger and even more important than the arrival of a new Steven Spielberg movie in cinemas? Oh we don't know. How about the existence of alien life on earth? That's the premise of Disclosure ...

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions comes up with an epic extraterrestrial playlist for Earth’s first contact from beyond the stars This week’s new question: ...

Rather than life starting independently on Earth, a fraction of the scientific community has spent years arguing that cosmic dust, comets, and asteroids act as interstellar delivery vehicles, carrying ...

WASHINGTON − The Pentagon released "never-before-seen" files on unidentified flying objects, and armchair investigators are furiously combing through them for evidence of "smoking gun" information ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. When President Trump promised, in a social-media post in February, “to begin the process of identifying and ...