The odds of there being another intelligent life form in the Milky Way are pretty good given the billions of stars. But we ...

K2-18b is one of the most promising worlds for the search for extraterrestrial life, so astronomers conducted an unusually ...

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

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Double Feature, a Fallout 4 quest mod made for charity by a group of high-profile modders and Elder Scrolls voice actor Wes Johnson, is out now.

While telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) can detect the chemical fingerprints of distant atmospheres, ...

The short answer is that there’s nothing to disclose. But that doesn’t mean we won’t make contact with extraterrestrial life Even before Stephen Spielberg’s latest film, Disclosure Day, began ...

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

Astronomers at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute have identified a physical mechanism that could finally explain the galaxy's radio silence, suggesting that advanced ...

The “Wow!” signal is one of our best pieces of evidence for aliens, but researchers are building a compelling case for a more ...

Do not shout ‘alien!’” Amid surge of public interest in UFOs or UAP, one group updated its rules for how news of extraterrestrials should be revealed.

With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination with extraterrestrials.