A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about ...

Even Universal Pictures thought it was silly when Fast & Furious took a car into space in 2021. Pump the brakes on the jokes, ...

As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters ...

A new exoplanet model screens rocky worlds by their ability to retain atmospheres over geologic timescales, helping narrow ...

Steven Spielberg is still the king of the summer blockbuster. "Disclosure Day," the filmmaker's latest big-screen alien adventure, came in at No. 1 at the domestic box office this weekend with a $44 ...

Alien conspiracy theory is getting respectable (with a little help from "Disclosure Day"), and it has helped bring America back to magical thinking.

Previous landmark scientific discoveries like the Higgs boson provide a better template for what it will take to confirm whether aliens have made contact with Earth.

The trip had all the makings of a boring car ride—until the couple saw mysterious lights approaching from the sky.

When astrobiologists are asked what aliens might look like, many now point not to distant galaxies but to some of the strangest corners of Earth, where researchers on several continents are using ...