The nature of space, time and the evolution of life on Earth mean it’s unlikely extraterrestrial life has visited our home planet.

A recently discovered "super Earth" located around 25 light-years from our planet is not as massive as previously thought, ...

Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got stranded on earth when his alien compadres abandoned their botany mission. In ...

Could intelligent alien civilizations really exist somewhere beyond Earth? As advanced telescopes continue discovering new potentially habitable worlds every year, that possibility seems more ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — In “Disclosure Day,” out Friday, Steven Spielberg is once again inviting audiences to ponder the existence of extraterrestrial life — and the implications it would have for religion ...

What does that final moment mean and why are people so conflicted by the film?

R L Drake explores the Fermi Paradox: why, given the Milky Way's billions of potentially habitable planets and the Drake Equation's estimate of 12,500 possible ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life. Tardigrades—a type of invertebrate ...