Spielberg’s hotly anticipated new movie gives fresh impetus to a dilemma that has long captured the imaginations of filmgoers, scientists and the great director himself ...

Scientists setting up ‘post-detection hub’ in Scotland are concerned humans would react ‘like headless chickens’ The moment has been imagined a thousand times. As astronomers comb the cosmos with ...

Swipe Down for Full Video Story Could intelligent alien civilizations really exist somewhere beyond Earth? As advanced telescopes continue discovering new potentially habitable worlds every year, that ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson has had a lifelong fantasy of being abducted by aliens. That’s right, he actually wants to be taken. “I even picture the scenario in my head: I’m sitting out there alone, and a ...

For decades, the idea of alien life has lived somewhere between science and science fiction. From Hollywood & Bollywood films to grainy UFO footage on the internet, the possibility that humanity is ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for ...