Few movies have left such a mark on the sci-fi landscape as Alien and its sequels — and who knows what might have happened ...

Is it alien? Is it natural? Those questions have followed the interstellar comet known as 3I/ATLAS since it entered our solar system last year from beyond our own star system. A new study released ...

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 ...

In July, researchers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System survey telescope in Chile made an exceedingly rare discovery: a mysterious object passing through the solar ...

A pond on the verge of destruction revealed an unbelievable discovery—rare albino alien fish fighting to survive. Time was running out, and the only option was a daring rescue. Each catch brought ...

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 ...

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

Americans are becoming more open to the idea that aliens have visited Earth, according to a series of polls that show belief in alien visitation has been steadily on the rise since 2012. Moreover, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A deep image of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS captured by the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Emily Blunt in Disclosure Day. (Universal Pictures) What would you do if you discovered that aliens were real, and a lot closer ...

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 ...