An interstellar comet that blazed past the Sun last year could be nearly three times older than our Solar System and is ...

A NASA astronaut preparing for a grueling eight-month stint in orbit reveals a plan to test for extraterrestrial life.

Where did life on Earth come from? It is one of humanity’s oldest and most fascinating questions. For centuries, people have ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has floated the provocative idea that humans might themselves be alien‑made 'autonomous probes,' built through advanced synthetic biology rather than evolving entirely ...

The best way to find alien technosignatures is to look for ones that have long survived their creators, according to a new ...

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

Consciousness may arise in systems far different than the biology on Earth we are used to, according to new research.

These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial life.

Steven Spielberg is back with his first film in three years, and critics are saying “Disclosure Day” is a return to form — for better or for worse. “ Disclosure Day ” tells the story of a large-scale ...

Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that consciousness is likely 'substrate flexible', challenging the ...

Given our current cultural “disclosure” moment, the 1997 film Contact, based on Carl Sagan’s 1985 novel, has taken on a strangely prophetic quality.

FLORIDO: It is the latest film that Spielberg has directed about aliens visiting Earth. Of course, there are many other films ...