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

Strikingly similar accounts of alien encounters are often rooted in the brain's ability to generate vivid, real-feeling ...

James Franco's cryptic TikTok comeback has sparked a wave of speculation after he claimed to have captured an alien on camera ...

Scientists have rewritten global 'first contact' protocols for how to confirm and announce the discovery of alien intelligence, stressing verification and transparency in an age of deepfakes and ...

Forget Hollywood: aliens should look as different to us as we do to bananas, saysdeGrasse Tyson ...

A UK based study suggests that people reporting alien contact often share distinct psychological traits, including higher ...

Baba Vanga predicted that aliens would make contact with Earth in 2025. A scientist has claimed that the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS moving towards the inner solar system is an alien “mothership” ...

Scientists explore the Fermi paradox, suggesting that alien civilisations may self-destruct before becoming detectable, ...

In 2019, a radio telescope in Australia detected an interesting signal coming from the vicinity of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to Earth. The signal, designated Breakthrough Listen Candidate 1 ...

Left to Right: Steven Yeun in "Nope," the alien in Steven Spielberg's "E.T." and Scarlett Johansson in "Under the Skin" (Universal Pictures / A24) It didn’t take long for stories about ...