In this scenario, our first contact with aliens would be tragic. We should look for "loud shouts in the night".

“Hollywood has preconditioned us to expect one of two types of alien contact, either a hostile invasion force or a benevolent ...

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer ...

We've all grown up dreaming of aliens landing on the Earth or laser beaming across the sky; well, either way, it's sci-fi and ...

Scientists suggest the first alien signal we detect could be a desperate cry for help from a fading civilization.

On July 1, humanity became aware of comet 3I/ATLAS. This is only the third interstellar object known to us, even though, statistically, many thousands are flying through the Solar System as we speak; ...

In the many decades of NASA exploration, there has only been one detection that got on that scale. It was collected by the ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has gotten new viral claims that it is targeting the Sun with strange wobbling jets. We break ...

A recent conundrum about a star 1,500 light years away discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope has extraterrestrial enthusiasts crying "alien" as an explanation, but scientists studying the star are ...

The Manhattan-sized interstellar visitor hurtling through space has captured the imaginations of UFO watchers for months and ...

One common complaint about science fiction involving aliens, especially a large and diverse cast of different alien races, is that the aliens just aren't alien enough. It seems like every week, the ...

Steven Spielberg's eerie 'Disclosure Day' trailer has ignited alien theories online. Is it hinting at hidden extraterrestrial ...