These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial life.

Take a drive to the CIA’s Area 51 – a route with more UFO sightings and unexplained mysteries than anywhere else on Earth ...

A Stanford scientist's model suggests many small rocky planets can't sustain atmospheres, potentially explaining the scarcity ...

Teetering near endangered status, the starlet sea anemone produces “an ancient mechanism” for fighting viruses that ...

A NASA astronaut preparing for a grueling eight-month stint in orbit reveals a plan to test for extraterrestrial life.

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After the famed Betty and Barney Hill encounter in 1961, alleged alien abductions were everywhere—and most of the tales followed the same patterns.

In its ruling today in Trump v. Barbara, the Court ruled by a vote of 6 to 3 that President Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship is unlawful. It divided 5 to 4 on whether that order ...

Astronomers turned the Allen Telescope Array toward interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, formally designated C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), ...

Everything is coming up Stitch. Following last summer's $1 billion-grossing live-action adaptation of the original film, Walt ...

As Steven Spielberg releases a new film on extraterrestrials, here's a brief history of modern alien conspiracies and why scientists are now taking UFO reports seriously. Amid all the unanswered ...

A.V. Club staffers wonder if, after watching the Disclosure Day broadcast, their reactions would live up to Steven Spielberg's expectations.