Steven Spielberg says he is now convinced that alien life has 'visited Earth,' a shift he links directly to recent US ...

For generations, the search for life beyond Earth has focused on avoiding one of science’s biggest mistakes: claiming a ...

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

The United States government’s recent release of hundreds of previously classified Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) ...

It may seem like we are on the verge of discovering alien life. In 2025, a press release stated that we have the "strongest ...

To travel between solar systems, a spacecraft would need extremely sophisticated – if not impossible – technology.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Over the past decade, scientists have come up with a variety of frameworks to guide ...

Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day may be grounded in some truth after all. Fans have long believed that the movie was made to ...

The object, called 3I/ATLAS, is only the third interstellar visitor ever detected passing through our Solar System.

We have no idea what kind of life may exist on other planets, so it’s hard to know what to look for. Proxima Kósmos imagines a very different kind of solar system that could harbor life-forms we haven ...