Astronomer Jon Willis warns that alien signals could be passing Earth unnoticed because humans are searching on the wrong ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has floated the provocative idea that humans might themselves be alien‑made 'autonomous probes,' built through advanced synthetic biology rather than evolving entirely ...

Maybe we did not create life in the biological sense, but maybe we created something stranger: an alien form of ...

These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial ...

Sony AI's Ace robot defeated professional table tennis players in Tokyo — and the eeriest part is how it learned: never by ...

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After 12 years of waiting, Alien: Isolation 2 is finally a reality in the first trailer for the sci-fi horror sequel.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to sell or give away most of the 11 warehouses it bought to detain migrants, ...

The Pentagon has released another batch of ‘UFO Files’ with footage of unknown objects in the sky—here are the most common alien theories, explained. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn ...

Claims that the CIA may have secretly searched through the DNA data of millions of Americans to identify possible alien-human hybrids have resurfaced online, despite no supporting evidence and no ...

The nation's top foreign intelligence service has been accused of searching through millions of DNA tests for signs of alien life on Earth.

Spielberg has always made his extraterrestrials glowy and good—except the one time he really, really didn’t.