Are we alone in the Universe? With more than 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe and at least 500 billion planets ...

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself resurfaces: if aliens were to arrive on Earth, would they come to conquer us, ...

Professor Carol Oliver suggests that time dilation, a cosmic phenomenon, may deter aliens from visiting Earth, as ...

Experts from Harvard University have discovered a 'super-Earth' 48-light years away that may have the right conditions for ...

Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life. Tardigrades—a type of invertebrate ...