Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly ...

Are we alone in the universe? Consider mysterious "extraterrestrial" radio signals. Unexplained gases on other planets.

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President Donald Trump made a jaw dropping jibe when he was allegedly briefed on alien “hybrids” living among humans.

Having considered more than 1,000 cases, this analyst of unidentified anomalous phenomena has honed a rational process for ...

A set of protocols telling scientists what to do – and what not to do – if they ever detect evidence of intelligent life ...

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Comedian Bill Maher during his latest show mocked the Obama Presidential Center, which opened in Chicago last week. “It looks like something aliens built in Dubai,” Maher remarked on the Friday ...

Hackers breached Brazil’s national emergency alert system overnight on June 19 and 20, sending fake notifications to residents across at least seven cities, with some alerts warning of an imminent ...

Science fiction, comic book, fantasy, and video game news. ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 3 is here. Here’s everything you need to remember from the first two seasons of the Targaryen family war.

Late in Steven Spielberg’s new film, Disclosure Day, a former nun-to-be calls the abbess of the convent she left behind. The world is about to learn that aliens have been living on Earth for decades.

The 250th anniversary of the United States — and the numerous celebrations vaguely aligned with it — have brought Americans plenty of opportunities to consider patriotism in their own lives and their ...