Once, a man called the authorities about an "enormous light" that was "blazing" above his house—only to call back shortly to explain it was actually the Moon.

I’ve used Barchart’s stock photo titled “The White House at Sunset” a number of times, usually to depict fury coming from the ...

A polarizing Harvard astronomer has been appointed to lead a Trump administration panel studying UFOs. Avi Loeb is leading a ...

If someone told you there’s a place in Wisconsin where the landscape looks like it was borrowed from another planet, you’d ...

Before Sunset, This Is Spinal Tap, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers are genuinely perfect movie masterpieces that only run ...

While this story of alien contact recalls the director’s classics, it substitutes clunky staging and exposition for their beauty and propulsiveness.

Polygon Summer Game Fest 2026 Live game reveals, world premiere trailers, and what’s next from 40+ developers, publishers, and hardware makers. Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 is a co-op shooter where you ...

Venus, Jupiter and Mercury are due to form a planet parade in June visible across the US. What to know, including the date and time and where to look.

When the Trump administration registered the domains Aliens.gov and Alien.gov in March, UFO conspiracy theorists wondered whether they might finally get answers they’d long awaited. But coming on the ...

The White House has launched a website that, at first glance, appears to offer classified intelligence about extraterrestrials. In actuality, it provides information on the arrests of immigrants.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered a dramatic weather cycle and massive “rock clouds” on a distant giant planet, revealing how mineral clouds form and disappear ...

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 ...