Avi Loeb, a Harvard astronomer who has made headlines with his theories about alien encounters, will lead a White House ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A polarizing Harvard astronomer known for splashy theories about alien visits has been tapped by the White House to lead a team of outside scientists to study the national security ...

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

What happens if scientists find evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence? That question was at the center of a recent SETI Live discussion about newly updated post-detection protocols and how ...

A rare visitor from another star system prompted SETI to hunt for alien technology, but the mysterious object appears to be a ...

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself resurfaces: if aliens were to arrive on Earth, would they come to conquer us, ...

The film that set the standard for such otherworldly optimism, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), shares much with ...

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.

Post-doc Computer-Aided Drug Design. The successful candidate will develop and apply Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD) methodologies to advance drug discovery projects. Their work ...

Steven Spielberg’s alien movie "Disclosure Day," starring Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor, is tracking to open on the softer side at the box office despite mostly glowing reviews.

The SETI Institute is the latest to confirm what scientists have long suspected: the interstellar 3I/ATLAS comet is not an alien spaceship.

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