Most people imagine first contact as a meeting with flesh-and-blood extraterrestrials, but this theory argues that advanced ...

For generations, humans have imagined what it would be like to discover life beyond Earth. Would alien beings look anything ...

A late-night drive along an empty desert highway completely transformed James Franco's reality. The actor found himself ...

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

Some of these approaches may show promise, but new research indicates much of today’s AI is even more easily duped by false positives than their human operators. “No matter what sequence of commands ...

After a two week expedition off the coast of Brazil, an international team of researchers discovered 31 new marine species, ...

Directed by Steven SpielbergAn ordinary lineman becomes obsessed with mysterious visions after witnessing a UFO, while a single mother searches for her abducted son. Their parallel journeys lead them ...

A polarizing Harvard University astronomer known for splashy theories about alien visits has been tapped by the White House to lead a team of outside scientists to study the national security risks ...

This article contains spoilers for the film Disclosure Day. As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters of the Third ...

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 ...

Steven Spielberg’s “Disclosure Day” is a movie in which characters argue about whether the discovery of extraterrestrial life would be a threat to religion, something that a great many people have ...

It didn’t take long for stories about extraterrestrials to reach our cinemas. George Méliès “A Trip to the Moon” introduced weird, easily explodable aliens called Selenites that capture the first ...