Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At a recent Pentagon press conference, press secretary Major General Pat Ryder addressed a question concerning the government’s ...

(Cartoon of an astronaut and an alien standing side by side on the moon, waving their hands. Credit: galacticus / Shutterstock.) The 1982 blockbuster film E.T. made aliens easy to love. In the film, a ...

U.S. President Donald Trump announced yesterday that he will order federal agencies to “identify and publish” government files related to extraterrestrials, something some Americans have been calling ...

Documents detailing what the U.S. government knows about whether intelligent life exists beyond Earth may not be under wraps for much longer. Citing “tremendous interest” in the subject, President ...

A few days ago Paul Gilster, the author of Centauri Dreams: Imagining and Planning Interstellar Exploration and the curator of Centauri Dreams, posted a thoughtful discussion of a blog entry I wrote ...

Just 40 light-years from Earth, a red dwarf star named TRAPPIST-1 intrigues astronomers with its exceptional planetary system. Orbiting it are seven rocky planets similar in size to our own, several ...

A few days ago Paul Gilster, the author of Centauri Dreams: Imagining and Planning Interstellar Exploration and the curator of Centauri Dreams, posted a thoughtful discussion of a blog entry I wrote ...

In his classic science fiction novel Contact, Carl Sagan remarked, “The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.” Physicist Enrico Fermi is credited with ...

On Thursday U.S. president Donald Trump announced on his social media platform Truth Social that he would direct the Department of Defense and other federal agencies to “begin the process of ...

SETI researchers may have missed alien signals due to a cosmic phenomenon that distorts narrowband radio waves, new research says.