A Soviet astronomer in the 1960s proposed a scale to classify hypothetical alien civilizations. Here’s why the framework is ...

The Justices take judges out of the Alien Tort Statute business in Cisco Systems v. Doe.

The Allen Telescope Array at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory. Credit: Seth Shostak/SETI Institute A rare visitor from another star system prompted SETI to hunt for alien technology, but the mysterious ...

To date, over 5000 exoplanets have been discovered using telescopes on the ground and in space. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Trump admin fires US attorney in Seattle minutes after he was appointed Sam ...

Researchers from the University of Oxford have uncovered evidence that Mars once hosted enormous, Earth-like magmatic systems deep beneath its surface—despite the planet lacking the plate tectonics ...

Alien comet 3I/ATLAS wowed us as it passed through the inner solar system in late 2025, and now JWST has revealed something truly amazing. Based on its unique composition, this interstellar visitor ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a ruling that limits the use of a federal law to hold U.S. corporations liable for human rights abuses abroad when it dismissed a lawsuit that accused Cisco Systems ...

Imagine being in bed, sound asleep, when your country’s emergency alert system suddenly goes off on your phone. Scary stuff. Now imagine that same emergency alert was announcing an alien invasion was ...

A strange interstellar comet discovered last year and speculated by a prominent astronomer to be an alien spacecraft could be older than our Solar System, according to a new study. The comet, first ...

It was initially thought to have formed between three and 10 billion years ago, but researchers have now found that it could be even older, originating from an ancient planetary system nearly 12 ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it far more difficult for foreigners to bring lawsuits in U.S. courts alleging serious violations of international law. In an opinion by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, ...