Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about modern anxieties than the past itself?

John Carpenter proved he could do far more than horror classics in this formulaic yet compelling 1984 film starring Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen.

The filmmaker weighed in on aliens and his career during a keynote appearance at South by Southwest Film & TV Festival on Friday: "I never want to quit." ...

But if they’re a little too sci-fi for your taste, new research funded by NASA from the SETI Institute provides a ...

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

Scientists are scrambling to explain why interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS is carrying life's chemical building blocks at ...

New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder to detect.

SETI has spent decades listening for a sharp, well-defined radio signal that could indicate it was sent by distant intelligent life. Now researchers believe that space weather could distort and blur s ...

Stellar plasma can smear alien radio signals before they escape their star system, making them harder for astronomers to detect.

Sohrab Rahvar and Shahin Rouhani’s recent paper, “Constraining the Lifespan of Intelligent Technological Civilization in the Galaxy,” lays it out bluntly: Advanced civilizations last roughly 5,000 ...

Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the ...