Radar operators at Washington National Airport and nearby military bases began tracking unidentified objects moving through restricted airspace near the White House and the Pentagon. The returns were ...

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, ...

Is intelligent alien life out there in the Universe? Well, with scientists discovering new exoplanets every year, yeah, the possibility only grows stronger. Will we discover alien life in the future?

Want to be a top notch candidate for hosting alien life? Then there's a few key requirements you should be aware of: Ideally, you're a large object like a moon or a planet; scientists suspect you also ...

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...

That’s what most Americans believe, according to a new YouGov poll. The majority think that extraterrestrial aliens definitely or probably exist, the survey found, and many are also pretty sure ...

Imagine that you’re an astronomer conducting a radio survey of the heavens. Maybe you’re searching for pulsars, or radio galaxies, or just mapping neutral hydrogen. Then, out of nowhere, you detect a ...

A documentary argues that the U.S. government needs to divulge what it knows about the phenomena formerly called U.F.O.s. By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed ...

A newly detected super-Earth just 20 light-years away is giving scientists one of the most promising chances yet to search for life beyond our solar system. The discovery of the exoplanet orbiting in ...

Scientists have just uncovered new evidence that Saturn’s moon Enceladus might be hiding alien life beneath its frozen surface. Thanks to data from NASA’s Cassini mission, researchers detected heat ...

Conspiracy theories have raged about 3I/ATLAS being an unnatural object. But the alien question, while fun, generates misinformation and distracts from the science. When you purchase through links on ...