Avi Loeb, a Harvard astronomer who has made headlines with his theories about alien encounters, will lead a White House ...

A controversial Harvard University cosmologist who has suggested alien lifeforms could be sailing into the solar system disguised as meteors is leading the Trump administration’ ...

The Harvard astrophysicist has devoted years—and thousands of interviews—to the idea that mysterious objects streaking ...

For the first time, NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission has identified a planet orbiting a distant star thanks to its warping of space-time. Unlike the star-hugging transiting ...

Scientists say moons around rogue planets wandering through the galaxy could remain warm enough for life thanks to tidal heating and hydrogen-rich atmospheres. These dark, starless worlds may have had ...

Renny Harlin revealed why he walked away from directing Alien 3 after 20th Century Fox rejected his radically different ideas ...

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously ...

"Eventually, our own Voyager spacecraft will be extraterrestrial artifacts in other stellar systems." ...

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

A rare visitor from another star system prompted SETI to hunt for alien technology, but the mysterious object appears to be a ...