NASA's Artemis II astronauts are now more than halfway to the moon, marking a major milestone in the first crewed deep-space ...

These findings suggest that the absence of past detections does not mean discovery is imminent. If extraterrestrial ...

The Education Department has launched “yet another investigation" into Fairfax County, Virginia, after reports of an adult ...

Assembly Theory shifts the search for life from identifying specific molecules to measuring chemical complexity, offering a ...

Alien planets are far away but extreme lasers on Earth are giving scientists a way to investigate what they're like.

As the science fiction author publishes the latest novel in his Children of Time series, Children of Strife, he talks to ...

Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s “habitable zone,” often considered the gold standard of potential livability ...

If you’re looking forward to reading the government’s soon-to-be-declassified files on aliens and UFOs, then here’s a little something to hold you over: declassified files on psychics. The experiments ...

Roughly 66 million years ago, scientists believe an enormous meteor, dubbed Chicxulub, smashed into the Earth in an extinction-level event that wiped out 75 percent of life, including the vast ...

This is how strange our times are: Last week, two United States presidents engaged the question of whether aliens are real, and it wasn’t even in the top 15 stories of the week. The debate was over ...

In last week’s The Universe column, I fielded a reader’s question about galaxy collisions in an expanding universe. The answer deals with vast distances, inscrutable forces and the ultimate fate of ...