Curiosity, which is exploring Gale Crater, conducted a chemistry experiment on a rock sample that revealed complex carbon ...

In an interview with Stephen Colbert, former President Barack Obama admitted that the government “is terrible at keeping ...

Hollywood owns the UFO genre and has actual standards for this sort of thing. The government needs to step it up.

Thomas Mulligan outlines four distinct scenarios for potential first contact with extraterrestrial life, ranging from detecting radio signals to a physical encounter with advanced alien technology.

Historian Greg Eghigian explains what is inside the Pentagon’s newly released federal UFO files, including FBI letters, ...

New detection method: Scientists found that life leaves distinct statistical patterns in molecular diversity and distribution ...

A new statistical method to identify extraterrestrial life by looking at the "biodiversity" of molecules rather than the ...

Donald Trump’s latest UFO file release blew up among conspiracy theorists and longtime believers at first, but not everyone ...

If intelligent life exists beyond Earth, we may be picturing the wrong kind of encounter. Most of us imagine other beings as ...

Netflix's 8-part sci-fi horror series intertwines survival in space with profound existential questions about humanity.

The hype around aliens has reached a fever pitch now that the US has released dozens of previously classified files on ...