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Discover the newly found planet scientists believe could support alien life

Scientists may have just taken one of the biggest steps yet in the search for life beyond Earth. Meet K2 18 b, a distant ...

This alien planet's hotspot is in the wrong place and astronomers have no idea why

CoRoT-2 b is a hot Jupiter 696 light-years away whose thermal hotspot is shifted in the wrong direction. New VLT data suggests the reason is its unusually slow rotation.

The 5 Types of Aliens People Most Frequently Say They See

From the Greys to the Nordics, these aliens appear frequently across abduction stories and science fiction tales.
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This NASA aircraft could search for alien life on Saturn

Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is home to vast lakes and seas - not of water, but of liquid methane and ethane. In this video, ...

Harvard professor with polarizing alien theories is picked to lead Trump administration UFO council

The Pentagon just released what they're calling never before seen UFO files, including videos, images, and original documents ...

7 Most Powerful Characters in Valiant Comics, Ranked by Power Level

Valiant Comics might not have the same level of popularity as Marvel and DC, but its characters are very powerful.

Does Avi Loeb—Head of the White House’s New UFO Council—Know Something the Rest of Us Don’t?

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb argues 3I/ATLAS and other interstellar objects may hint at alien technology, drawing fame, ...

TESS just found a planet in a new way—and more may be hiding in its eight years of data

For the first time, NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission has identified a planet orbiting a distant star thanks to its warping of space-time. Unlike the star-hugging transiting ...