Ridley Scott has officially stated that a new installment in the Alien prequel saga is underway. Set to follow the narrative ...

The search for extraterrestrial life has evolved from philosophy to a serious scientific and national security concern ...

Letters: Readers offer their explanations for the absence of hard evidence for extraterrestrial civilisations, in response to an article by Adam Kirsch ...

If humanity ever makes contact with an intelligent extraterrestrial civilization, we will have no shortage of questions.

Alien experts claim powerful extraterrestrial life exists in the universe, which is beyond the control of any government — and could wipe out life on earth. Following Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett’s ...

Humans have always been fascinated with space. We frequently question whether we are alone in the universe. If not, what does intelligent life look like? And how would aliens communicate? How could ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The great physicist Enrico Fermi first posed the challenging question over half a century ago, wondering why we appear to be alone ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the largest searches for alien intelligence in history is nearing completion, thanks to the help of more than 2 million ...

It may not breathe, eat, or sleep. It may not reproduce in any ordinary sense. It may not have a face, a voice, or a body shaped by evolution. It may be a machine. This is not a wild idea – it follows ...

IN The shadows of Mount Shasta and Lassen Peak volcanoes in northern California, dozens of radio telescopes are gearing up to search for extraterrestrials. Thousands of kilometres away in Boston, ...

Researchers at SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) might be looking for the wrong thing, says one of SETI's astronomers in The Guardian. They're looking for aliens that are like us.