A recent conundrum about a star 1,500 light years away discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope has extraterrestrial enthusiasts crying "alien" as an explanation, but scientists studying the star are ...

President Donald Trump wrote in a social media post this past week that he would order release of the federal government’s ...

The third known visitor from another star system, Comet 3I/ATLAS, has been racing through the Solar System with just enough weirdness to ignite a familiar debate: is it natural or could it be ...

The third confirmed visitor from outside our solar system, Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, has been turning heads with its peculiar, elongated shape and unpredictable behavior as it speeds towards the ...

A team of astronomers found no radio signals from the comet that would suggest it is an extraterrestrial spaceship. The comet was confirmed in July 2025 as the third known object to enter our solar ...

In an Instagram post on Sunday, Obama said he had been trying to “stick with the spirit” of his interviewer, political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen, during a wide-ranging podcast released Saturday.

There’s no denying the allure of alien artifacts. Science fiction is awash in the material remnants of extraterrestrial civilizations, which surface in everything from the classic books of Arthur C.

The following is an excerpt from First Contact: The Story of Our Obsession with Aliens, by Becky Ferreira. When you purchase products through the Bookshop.org link on this page, Science Friday earns a ...