Since the 1960s, scientists working with SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) have been monitoring the universe ...

Scientists updated first contact protocols for 2026, requiring multiple verification steps and UN consultation before announcing alien discoveries or sending replies.

Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day follows a TV meteorologist and a whistleblower uncovering alien secrets while trying to prevent World War III. However, the film's ending has left fans talking. Read ...

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

In celebration of World UFO Day, I asked ChatGPT to give me a scenario where aliens finally make contact with us — and its ...

No bombshells so far in the latest Pentagon batch of declassified Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena files. But they show the ...

More than 1,000 scientists have quietly updated the world's post‑detection protocols for alien contact, doubling down on the rule that 'no reply should be sent' without global agreement.

Explaining why the film didn't go into more detail about precisely what the message was, or the nature of the reactions in the aftermath of disclosure day, he added: "In the begin ...

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was a global phenomenon that spawned many knockoffs, with films like Purple People Eater, Badi, ...

Like many great directors, Steven Spielberg has something of an allergy to sequels. Among his 35 features, the moviemaker has made a lone direct sequel—1997’s “The Lost World: Jurassic Park”—and ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Oliva recommended six books in which the presence of aliens prompts readers to think more ...