The search for alien intelligence is entering a new phase as scientists expand beyond traditional radio signal searches and ...

Maymo’s animal-loving family follows their unimpressed dog Maymo as he calmly reacts to a giant alien head in a compilation of stoic encounters.

With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination with extraterrestrials.

Scientists can't fully agree on what GJ504b actually is. It may be a massive planet or a brown dwarf, a mysterious class of ...

As for those salt clouds, the salt is not table salt or even Pink Himalayan Rock Salt, though that would go splendidly with ...

American Religious Belief in Extraterrestrial Life (Princeton Univ., Sept.) argues that several American religious traditions have long believed in that aliens exist—and want to help us.

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

The case involves a dozen members of Falun Gong, a spiritual movement that China’s government crushed through force.

Brad Bird's "Ray Gunn" made a splash at this year's Annecy International Animation Film Festival, with it taking center stage ...

Using the Keck Observatory, astronomers measured the spins of dozens of giant planets and brown dwarfs orbiting distant stars. They found that giant planets can spin faster than much more massive ...

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 ...

For years the NBA has wondered what would happen if it had a giant who could do everything. The San Antonio Spurs star has given us an answer ...