The White House launched a website teasing new information on extraterrestrials this week, but it actually delivers immigrant arrest data.

You sent them to that ship. I just checked the colony log. Directive dated 6/12/79, signed Burke, Carter J. You sent them out there and you didn’t even warn them. Why didn’t you warn them?” Unless you ...

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The White House is mocking the idea of the U.S. retaining secrets involving alien encounters by launching a space-themed ...

Watson's death last month prompted sci-fi columnist Emily H. Wilson to read his acclaimed 1973 debut and find out what she'd been missing. She found it fascinating – but reflective of its time ...

The universe is vast and teeming with stars – but if intelligent life exists, it may not be able to visit Earth.

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for ...

There have been hundreds of planets featured in the "Star Trek" universe, with some being less favorable than others. Here ...

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new ...

A new Project Hail Mary clip shows Ryan Gosling figuring out how to communicate with an alien named Rocky. In the film, science teacher Ryland Grace wakes up on a spaceship light-years from home with ...

(AP) - Former U.S. President Barack Obama said he did not see evidence that aliens “have made contact with us,” after sending social media abuzz by saying aliens were real on a podcast over the ...