This study ranks Florida among the top states for alien abduction reports, where you have 1 in 1,102 odds of an extraterrestrial beaming you up.

Steven Spielberg is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, and he has created some truly chilling alien encounters.

Life on Earth is a precious thing, especially given what astronomers know about the visible universe. Although researchers have so far identified over 6,000 exoplanets beyond our solar system, only a ...

What happens if alien contact stops being science fiction and becomes real? From mysterious interstellar objects to the possibility of signals, peaceful arrival, or outright attack, the deeper ...

Silicon Valley was energized by legal immigrants from all over the world who founded eBay, Google, Nvidia, SpaceX, Stripe, Sun Microsystems, Tesla, Yahoo, ...

Renewed attention is falling on the base after the disappearance of retired Air Force Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland, a ...

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about modern anxieties than the past itself?

Star Wars had been released in theaters and changed everything about the way Hollywood perceived the genre, and television executives wanted in on that cash-grab just as much as movie executives. In ...

Debunking alien claims matters, but so does telling richer, more compelling stories about how humans shaped their own past.

Wright-Patterson has played a central role in the US military’s real investigations into mysterious objects in the sky — from Cold War-era research programs to efforts to study what the government now ...

As Nicolas Roeg’s enigmatic, unclassifiable film – in which David Bowie plays an alien visiting Earth – turns 50, we look back at Tom Milne’s deciphering of it. From our Summer 1976 issue.

If someone told you there’s a place in Colorado specifically built for watching aliens, you’d probably assume it was a joke.