Still, the fancy persists, implanted like a microchip, ever since Erich von Däniken’s 1968 best-seller, “Chariots of the Gods ...

Elon Musk has turned a long-running joke about being an extraterrestrial into a central part of his public persona, even as ...

When astronomers first picked up a perfectly regular radio heartbeat from deep space in 1967, some of them half-jokingly ...

Language and radio signals may not matter to aliens. Instead, they might be using patterns to leave a biological fingerprint.

Scientists claim that first extraterrestrial contact will be a loud event impossible to ignore, not a subtle signal.

As its immigration crackdown in Minneapolis intensifies, the Trump administration is leaning into messaging that borrows from ...

A major claim in the older media cycle was that NASA removed the book and related materials. Whatever happened during the original wave of reporting, the current reality is clear: NASA now provides an ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to sci-fi movie depictions, our first contact might not be with a super advanced alien civilization at the height of power. Rather, Ivy League ...

For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to prepare us for eventual contact with aliens. Their efforts are dominated by several recurrent tropes. There's the invasion by a warlike ...

If aliens are out there, why haven’t we heard from them? That’s the question at the center of Pop Mech’s new story, “Aliens Probably Exist—But They’re Staying Silent For a Reason, NASA Scientist ...