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

A prequel tried to avoid one fan-favorite character’s swagger, but the result became one of the franchise’s strangest misfires.

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

Group set up by Harvard professor Avi Loeb to advise White House, Pentagon, FBI and American intelligence community on ...

Jordan Flowers claims Russia and China may be reverse-engineering alien technology, raising national security concerns. However, no solid evidence supports these assertions.

Capture, Amanda Lohrey’s 10th book, is an odd beast. It follows sexagenarian Dr James “Jim” Mather, a clinical psychiatrist who is persuaded by a colleague to take on a new cohort of patients. The ...

In 1877, an Italian astronomer mapped faint lines on Mars and called them canali, meaning channels or grooves. But the word was mistaken for “canals,” and suddenly people believed Mars showed signs of ...

With the release of "Disclosure Day," Steven Spielberg's new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself resurfaces: If aliens were to arrive on Earth, would they come to conquer us ...

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence has traditionally focused on detecting radio signals or laser transmissions from distant civilisations. But a new study proposes a very different idea: ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has floated the provocative idea that humans might themselves be alien‑made 'autonomous probes,' built through advanced synthetic biology rather than evolving entirely ...