With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination ...

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

One of the best horror games of the 2010s was Creative Assembly's Alien: Isolation, but it certainly took some time for ...

And if aliens made of different stuff potentially possess consciousness, then why not minds made of silicon, metal, and ...

Military and commercial pilots are increasingly treated as star witnesses in UFO debates, but psychologists warn their ...

The White House is mocking the idea of the U.S. retaining secrets involving alien encounters by launching a space-themed website that touts the arrests of immigrants unauthorized to live in the U.S.

A NASA‑linked study argues that alien probes could already be in our Solar System, but our surveys are still too crude to ...

A new SETI study suggests we may be overlooking alien signals not because they aren't there, but because their own stars are scrambling them before they escape into space. Turbulent plasma and ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life.

Scientists propose a simple but powerful new method for detecting traces of alien biology, whether on Jupiter's icy moons, in ...

In 1977, Ohio State’s Big Ear radio telescope picked up a 72-second radio burst from deep space that was 30 times stronger ...

A new study analyzed how NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory might be able to confidently spot biosignatures in the ...