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A rare visitor from another star system prompted SETI to hunt for alien technology, but the mysterious object appears to be a ...

A published report says a U.S. fighter pilot whose aircraft was downed in Iran earlier this year shared a startling account ...

A NASA astronaut preparing for a grueling eight-month stint in orbit reveals a plan to test for extraterrestrial life.

Bored humans invented a cat IQ test, but it backfired and gave 90% of us pure anxiety instead! While our genius kitties aced it without a care in the world, it turns out we’re just too obsessed with ...

Avi Loeb has suggested that humans themselves may be 'intelligent, self-replicating and self-repairing autonomous probes' built by an advanced alien civilisation, arguing in a new essay published ...

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is calling on the government to just "show the alien," arguing that after years of whistleblower hearings and Pentagon file dumps, the American public is ready to ...

These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial life.

The nature of space, time and the evolution of life on Earth mean it’s unlikely extraterrestrial life has visited our home planet.

When I look at the night sky, I don’t wonder whether alien life is somewhere out there; I think it probably is. Considering the sheer number of stars in the cosmos, and the possibly larger number of ...