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

In the following six books, each writer looks to space to skillfully explore what it means to live on Earth. Salvation and ...

The 72 newly released files date from the 1940s to this year and do not appear to contain definitive proof of life beyond our ...

How would you describe a culture where women are flogged in public for “inappropriate dress?” A culture where one ...

Psychic spy veteran Lyn Buchanan claims the CIA accessed 23andMe and Ancestry.com to search for people with extraterrestrial ...

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

Universal Pictures just dropped the final trailer for Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s first sci-fi film since 2005’s War of the Worlds and his first directorial effort since 2022’s The Fabelmans.

Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s “habitable zone,” often considered the gold standard of potential livability An ...

The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we dive into fascinating ideas from around the universe. You can sign up for Lost in Space-Time here. Modern physics ...

This is how strange our times are: Last week, two United States presidents engaged the question of whether aliens are real, and it wasn’t even in the top 15 stories of the week. The debate was over ...

In last week’s The Universe column, I fielded a reader’s question about galaxy collisions in an expanding universe. The answer deals with vast distances, inscrutable forces and the ultimate fate of ...

If humans ever receive a message from intelligent aliens, the biggest challenge may not be how far away they are, but how to communicate at all. Our nearest star system is more than four light-years ...