Every major Star Trek series has pulled this classic move, from The Original Series to Deep Space Nine to Starfleet Academy.

It wouldn’t take much to pull the wool over your eyes, especially if you’re a passer-by who prefers to keep their head above the clouds and out of the eccentric aisles of a seemingly ordinary gas ...

There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember. ” That observation, attributed to ...

Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the ...

There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember. ” Richard Feynman’s reflection lingers because it feels personal.

Landmark UFO documents smuggled out of Russia 30 years ago — and just publicly revealed — show the Soviets investigated thousands of reports of extraterrestrial craft and encounters with aliens.

The mysterious space rock that passed through our solar system grew significantly brighter as it left, according to scientists. Researchers say Comet 3I/ATLAS, suggested to be a hostile alien ...

We may not have found any definitive proof of extraterrestrial life just yet, despite plenty of hope among scientists. But if we were to ever come to an answer in the form of alien biology or ...

Green Bank Telescope rules out alien signals in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS after rigorous scientific deep search.

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. Is the whole universe just a simulation?

Astronomers recently discovered a rare interstellar object passing through our solar system, and a Harvard physicist is sounding the alarm that its strange characteristics might indicate it’s more ...