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What a year it’s been for Netflix subscribers, especially in the sci-fi genre, following the conclusion of Stranger Things at the top of the year. Netflix’s next big sci-fi project of the year was War ...

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist having a Eureka moment, realising in a single dramatic instant that Earth is ...

Most Americans believe that aliens exist — and more than one in five think they’ve already paid our planet a visit, according to an out-of-this world new poll. Some 63% of Americans said they’re ...

The “Wow!” signal is one of our best pieces of evidence for aliens, but researchers are building a compelling case for a more ...

The United States government’s recent release of hundreds of previously classified Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) cases spanning the 1940s to the present, along with the new Steven Spielberg ...

New SETI protocols outline how scientists should verify, share, and respond to potential evidence of alien intelligence in the modern information age. Reading time 4 minutes The moment of first ...

From Craghtten v. U.S., decided Wednesday by the Ninth Circuit (Judges Kenneth Lee, Gabriel Sanchez, and Holly Thomas): Isaac Craghtten—a Canadian-born American Indian and a lawful permanent resident ...

When I look at the night sky, I don’t wonder whether alien life is somewhere out there; I think it probably is. Considering the sheer number of stars in the cosmos, and the possibly larger number of ...

Late in Steven Spielberg’s new film, Disclosure Day, a former nun-to-be calls the abbess of the convent she left behind. The world is about to learn that aliens have been living on Earth for decades.