The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

Americans are becoming more open to the idea that aliens have visited Earth, according to a series of polls that show belief in alien visitation has been steadily on the rise since 2012. Moreover, ...

This is not the most pressing issue in the trailer for Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s newest film out in June 2026, but isn’t Colin Firth looking a little bit like Bill Pullman lately? He’s got ...

If aliens are out there, why haven’t we heard from them? That’s the question at the center of Pop Mech’s new story, “Aliens Probably Exist—But They’re Staying Silent For a Reason, NASA Scientist ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is warning that Illinois officials are releasing violent criminal illegal aliens despite active immigration detainers, a move the agency says is putting ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

The truth is out there — and late President George H.W. Bush apparently knew it — telling a federal official that an alien made contact with humans at a secretive New Mexico air base in 1964, ...

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...

FX announced today that the FX, Hulu and Disney+ series Alien: Earth has been renewed for a second season as part of an overall new deal that FX and Disney Entertainment Television have sealed with ...

Alien: Earth was the franchise's first-ever incursion into the TV space, daring to ask the question, "What if Alien, but good again?" The answer? A critical hit and one of the most brilliant sci-fi ...