As a child, Steven Spielberg stared at a meteor shower and began his love affair with the sky. The director of the 1977 ...

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist ...

Actual science finds itself badly outnumbered by entertainment repackaged as factual. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This ...

UFO skeptics and believers differ fundamentally in their beliefs about the possibilities of extraterrestrial life and alien visitations. It turns out that psychology also tells us that skeptics and ...

We got a kick out of an old chestnut among conspiracy theorists — whether intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe and whether any of those aliens have visited Earth — that rose to the ...

Screenwriter David Koepp talks to us about his new film with Steven Spielberg, Disclosure Day, its alien visitation themes ...

This story first appeared in Trying!, a thoughtful, funny, wide-ranging daily newsletter featuring essays from the mind of Matt Gross. You can sign up for them here. Those were simple aliens for ...

"Ancient Aliens" is the show that just won't quit but then, with 75 million years to investigate for signs of alien visitation to Earth, why would it. Presented (and exec produced) by the ...

As a child, Steven Spielberg stared at a meteor shower on a wondrous starry night and began his love affair with the sky. The ...

We may never know for certain whether there is intelligent life on other planets. Even if any life outside Earth does exist, scientists pay little credence to the notion that life from other planets ...