Aliens might be transmitting communications signals to each other across exoplanets, some astronomers think. Since these signals are likely sent as narrowband radio waves, we may now have a way to ...

Belief in aliens has persisted for centuries, and one-third of Americans believe that UFOs people have spotted have been alien spacecraft visiting Earth from other planets or galaxies, according to a ...

It’s late on a clear night. You’re driving down a winding county highway—no headlights for miles—and you steer the car over to the shoulder. You get out, wait for the dome light to blink off, and ...

In our stories, intelligent aliens typically interact with us in one of two ways. Either they show up in force to take whatever resources they want from the seemingly defenseless ape people, or they ...

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 ...

Humanity's ideas about aliens have been evolving for millennia – but in the era before television, they were considerably stranger. In October 1961, Betty and Barney Hill sat down with an astronomy ...

“Look at the incredible diversity of biotypes here on Earth, all of which evolved under the same planetary environment. I don’t believe an alien species from an entirely different biochemical ...

What if we finally make contact with aliens, but they don’t realize we are actually intelligent life forms? In a recent paper in The International Journal of Astrobiology, bioethicists Konrad Szocik ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

When Earth gets to be too much, there's nothing quite like heading to the stars with an unforgettable space movie. Hollywood's fascination with outer space has led to an abundance of movies featuring ...

Six James Cameron films are coming to 4K UHD, including three for the first time ever: Aliens, The Abyss, and True Lies. Special collector editions for Titanic, Avatar, and Avatar: The Way of Water ...