Steven Spielberg says he is now convinced that alien life has 'visited Earth,' a shift he links directly to recent US ...

Are we alone in the universe? The astrophysicist doesn’t think so ...

For generations, the search for life beyond Earth has focused on avoiding one of science’s biggest mistakes: claiming a ...

To travel between solar systems, a spacecraft would need extremely sophisticated – if not impossible – technology.

Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day may be grounded in some truth after all. Fans have long believed that the movie was made to ...

Steven Spielberg's new film “Disclosure Day” explores extraterrestrial life and its impact on religion. UFOs, now also called ...

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist ...

Filmmakers have shaped our perception of the unknown, and Steven Spielberg has had aliens on the mind for a while now. He ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Over the past decade, scientists have come up with a variety of frameworks to guide ...

A research team has developed a new approach to detecting life beyond Earth that does not rely on identifying specific biological markers. Instead, the study suggests that life may be detectable ...

We have no idea what kind of life may exist on other planets, so it’s hard to know what to look for. Proxima Kósmos imagines a very different kind of solar system that could harbor life-forms we haven ...

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 ...