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.

From the Greys to the Nordics, these aliens appear frequently across abduction stories and science fiction tales.

Is alien life really out there? For decades, humanity has looked at the night sky and asked the same question. Now, according ...

The recent discovery of an enigmatic substance on the surfaces of both Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, and Pluto, our solar ...

A Stanford scientist's model suggests many small rocky planets can't sustain atmospheres, potentially explaining the scarcity ...

A new exoplanet model screens rocky worlds by their ability to retain atmospheres over geologic timescales, helping narrow ...

With Backrooms and Obsession still holding screens and Spider-Man looming, Steven pielberg’s most ambitious and fun alien film yet has a narrow window to prove itself. One of the beautiful things abou ...

Hyundai has revealed two concept cars that preview the expansion of the Ioniq EV subbrand into the Chinese market. The Venus is a sleek hatchback with a pod-like design and an interior characterized ...

In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible sign of life, known as a potential biosignature, on Mars. The Perseverance rover, which has been exploring a dried-up lakebed for years, found ...

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

Brown dwarfs: too small to be stars, too big to be planets. Only discovered in the 1990s, these in-between cosmic objects aren’t big enough to burn as hot and bright as a true star, instead usually ...

Alien life could exist on hot, rocky planets, sustained not by water but by a type of salty fluid, new research suggests. Reading time 3 minutes The search for alien life usually hinges on finding the ...