A recently discovered "super Earth" located around 25 light-years from our planet is not as massive as previously thought, raising the chances that it has the conditions to support life.

A rocky world orbiting within its star’s habitable zone may be surrounded by a helium-rich atmosphere, providing the ...

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Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got ...

Many have watched recently released UFO videos, but most still think the government knows more than it is saying.

K2-18b is one of the most promising worlds for the search for extraterrestrial life, so astronomers conducted an unusually ...

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

Spielberg's new film imagines what might happen if the existence of non-human intelligence was revealed to the world.

A Harvard University professor known for his polarizing theories about extraterrestrial life has been tapped by the White ...