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Scientists have identified new clues that could help astronomers spot one of the most famous hypothetical alien ...

Thousands of people have reported UFOs or alien encounters in Northern California. That number could soon go up.

A Soviet astronomer in the 1960s proposed a scale to classify hypothetical alien civilizations. Here’s why the framework is ...

If you've picked up the Sunday paper in the late 80s or early 90s, chances are you probably read The Far Side. Gary Larson's ...

A planet with one side permanently roasting and the other frozen in endless darkness might still have a chance of supporting life. Researchers found that heat inside a tidally locked exoplanet could ...

A recent study in the journal Nature carries cosmos-quaking implications for our understanding of the universe—except a new ...

From Project Hail Mary to Independence Day, Alien to Arrival, these alien movies are much better than Disclosure Day.

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When Steven Spielberg announced Disclosure Day , many fans immediately saw it as another entry in the filmmaker's ...

From Nevada’s Area 51 mythology to McMinnville, Oregon’s UFO Fest, alien lore continues to turn curiosity, conspiracy, and ...