From "Independence Day" to "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", movies and TV shows are packed with advice for anyone aspiring ...

Somewhere out there, a planet roughly the size of Earth may be orbiting a distant star in conditions that could support life.

In the book version of “Project Hail Mary,” author Andy Weir, known for grounding his fiction in plausible science, describes ...

Does consciousness require flesh and blood to exist?Probably not, according to Eric Schwitzgebel, a distinguished professor of philosophy at the ...

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...

From the Navy’s infamous Tic-Tac encounter to thousands of recent reports, believers say some of the strangest UFOs may be hiding underwater.

The best way to find alien technosignatures is to look for ones that have long survived their creators, according to a new paper.

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself resurfaces: if aliens were to arrive on Earth, would they come to conquer us, ...

Our search for technosignatures—clear signs of advanced civilizations beyond Earth—takes many forms. Many are driven by the famous Drake equation, which attempts to estimate how many technological ...

Do not shout ‘alien!’” Amid surge of public interest in UFOs or UAP, one group updated its rules for how news of extraterrestrials should be revealed.

On May 22, 2026, the Pentagon released a second batch of previously classified photos and videos showing what appear to be unexplained flying objects. These file dumps were the culmination of a ...

Editor Regis Kimble says the creature’s reveal was never the priority, though one episode-two scene proved too intense even for FX. By James Hibberd Writer-at-Large “Noah’s totally into trying to tell ...