An odd study claims that Virginia is the state third most likely to survive an extra-terrestrial alien invasion.

A NASA‑linked study argues that alien probes could already be in our Solar System, but our surveys are still too crude to ...

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself ...

A new Gallup study reveals that social media users across platforms differ in how they express their views on democracy. Dr.

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

Using the Keck Observatory, astronomers measured the spins of dozens of giant planets and brown dwarfs orbiting distant stars ...

James Webb has revealed that the sunrise and sunset sides of WASP-121 b have surprisingly different atmospheres.

Astronomers studying the atmospheres of several intensely heated exoplanets uncovered an unexpected pattern that may reveal a ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope on exoplanet K2-18b has revealed the "strongest hints yet of biological activity outside the solar system," according to a University of Cambridge study.

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

When Comet 3I/ATLAS entered our solar system last year—only the third known interstellar object to do so—astronomers took ...

The White House turned a legal term into a science-fiction spectacle. The real story is not the theatrics. It is how language ...