Comet 3I/ATLAS, a rare interstellar visitor, is visible this week as it departs the solar system, with some public events ...

ATLAS made its long-awaited nearest approach to Earth on Friday but just hurtled past, showing that the aliens who "sent" it ...

He cited the astronomical gaffe in January, when The Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., announced the discovery of an ...

Besides the original cult hit film, the sci-fi franchise Alien Nation also encompasses a TV series and several TV movies ...

Hawaii’s Gemini North telescope has captured new images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS with a green glow as it remerges from ...

Astronomer Avi Loeb argued that other objects like interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS could be useful for reaching out to aliens, if they exist.

In the vast, quiet theatre of deep space, not many things capture the human imagination like a traveler from another world.

Aliens might be transmitting communications signals to each other across exoplanets, some astronomers think. Since these signals are likely sent as narrowband radio waves, we may now have a way to ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

In the many decades of NASA exploration, there has only been one detection that got on that scale. It was collected by the ...

From space slugs to lunar cemeteries, these movies, games, and books show that the undead can arrive from above, as well as below.