This documentary explores the profound scientific quest to discover intelligent extraterrestrial life, delving into the ...

A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about ...

Astronomers have uncovered a pair of giant planets that are lighter than cotton candy — super-puffs the size of Jupiter. The ...

Could the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS exhibit technosignatures, or signals of alien technology? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical | Space ...

This summer, SETI AIR Director Bettina Forget's Imagine Aliens project is featured as part of the Exploratorium's Life in ...

Rick and Morty season 9 has continued to prove that the long-running animated comedy still has plenty of life left in it. The latest batch of episodes has taken Rick Sanchez and Morty Smith through ...

Steven Spielberg isn't just the director of several classic movies featuring aliens. He's also a believer. His father, Arnold Spielberg, was an electrical engineer and big science fiction reader who ...

When I look at the night sky, I don’t wonder whether alien life is somewhere out there; I think it probably is. Considering the sheer number of stars in the cosmos, and the possibly larger number of ...

Half a century after "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," the director returns to the subject of UFOs with "Disclosure Day." His science fiction films are informed by his fascination with alien encou ...

The SETI Institute is the latest to confirm what scientists have long suspected: the interstellar 3I/ATLAS comet is not an ...

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

Scientists may have found a powerful new way to hunt for alien life — not by searching for specific molecules, but by looking for hidden patterns in how those molecules are organized. Researchers ...