Learn about the decagon wave that has appeared at Saturn's south pole, offering an opportunity to study an evolving ...

Who’s that dead guy on your wall?” I gestured toward the crucifix, anticipating looks of shock and hopefully a smile or two ...

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, ...

Using the W.M. Keck Observatory, astronomers investigated the long-predicted relationship between mass and spin for giant planets and brown dwarfs. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A new Keck Observatory ...

When the Trump administration registered the domains Aliens.gov and Alien.gov in March, UFO conspiracy theorists wondered whether they might finally get answers they’d long awaited. But coming on the ...

The CIA has been accused of gaining secret access to the DNA information of millions of people as the intelligence agency allegedly searches for alien life on Earth. Jason Reza Jorjani, a philosophy ...

For many years, scientists searching for life beyond Earth have focused on one main question: what kinds of molecules should they look for on other planets? Molecules such as amino acids and fatty ...

The search for life beyond Earth has a new approach that relies more heavily on statistical patterns of molecules than on any one molecule's presence. Credit: NASA. For decades, scientists searching ...

What methods can scientists use to correctly identify biosignatures, aka signs of life beyond Earth? This is what a recent study Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of researchers from the ...

Researchers hunting for life above Earth might have to simply know the organic molecules on faraway planets and moons. A new study in the journal Nature Astronomy demonstrates how the hidden ...

In the UFO/UAP field, there are many cases where information that does not exist in official documents is spread as "fact." This is the result of a desire to create and spread sensational stories ...

Just over 40 years ago, in his novel Contact, astronomer Carl Sagan imagined what it would be like to detect radio signals beamed from other intelligent lifeforms in the galaxy. In the story, these ...