The new film probes the possibility of alien life – here's how the science of Project Hail Mary stacks up.

What if humanity’s first unmistakable sign of alien technology is not a greeting, but a distress flare? That possibility sits at the center of a growing idea in technosignature research: the signals ...

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about modern anxieties than the past itself?

Debunking alien claims matters, but so does telling richer, more compelling stories about how humans shaped their own past.

"Just because it’s crazy doesn’t mean it’s not true, but we have to look into the realities," law enforcement told reporters.

Hundreds of mysterious objects have appeared in images captured by the Webb space telescope. The curious dots could reshape scientists’ understanding of the cosmos.

SCIENTISTS have uncovered an absolute stinker 34 light-years from Earth. A newly discovered planet, called L 98-59 d, is among the stinkiest ever with a strong rank stench worse than rotten egg ...

An alien-themed "micro resort" just minutes from Utah's Zion National Park has landed back on the market with a $1.49 million price tag. The commercially zoned compound, which was originally listed ...

Wright-Patterson has played a central role in the US military’s real investigations into mysterious objects in the sky — from Cold War-era research programs to efforts to study what the government now ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. To distract myself, I picked up The Lost Cause, the latest sci-fi novel from author ...

For decades, humans have scanned for signals of alien technology emanating through the galaxy. The search highlights the contradiction between the abundance of planets and stars that stretch across ...

Is the US government about to confirm that aliens are real? That’s the claim floating around among those who believe in prediction markets as reliable soothsayers of the future, a promise that ...