In the first installment of this rare multipart interview series with former Area 51 employee Bob Lazar, we discuss his new ...

For a long time, it was thought that this [technique] required telescopes in space,” says John Mather, the Nobel ...

These findings suggest that the absence of past detections does not mean discovery is imminent. If extraterrestrial ...

The Education Department has launched “yet another investigation" into Fairfax County, Virginia, after reports of an adult ...

Assembly Theory shifts the search for life from identifying specific molecules to measuring chemical complexity, offering a ...

Alien planets are far away but extreme lasers on Earth are giving scientists a way to investigate what they're like.

Roughly 66 million years ago, scientists believe an enormous meteor, dubbed Chicxulub, smashed into the Earth in an extinction-level event that wiped out 75 percent of life, including the vast ...

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 ...

Michelle Fuller is Actually the Andromedan Empress, and She Decides Humanity Deserves to Die The entire time you’re watching Bugonia, you’re watching a conspiracy theorist named Teddy torture a woman ...

Studying how honeybees process information may help humans communicate with aliens, according to a new thought experiment. Although the ancestors of honeybees and humans diverged in evolution more ...

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 ...