Your phone buzzes with a breaking news alert: "Astronomers detect unusual signal from distant star system." Within hours, social media explodes with alien conspiracy theories, deepfake "evidence," and ...

Is intelligent alien life really out there? With powerful telescopes identifying more potentially habitable planets each year, the possibility continues to grow. But what would happen if we actually ...

The truth is out there — and late President George H.W. Bush apparently knew it — telling a federal official that an alien made contact with humans at a secretive New Mexico air base in 1964, ...

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Neil deGrasse Tyson, left, and an illustration of a flying saucer. "The real transition for me was the high-ranking officials who ...

MANY thousands of people around the world are convinced they have been abducted by extraterrestrial beings, taken on board alien spacecraft, subjected to painful medical examinations and then returned ...

Scientists have quietly rewritten the global rulebook for what happens if alien intelligence is ever detected, updating long‑standing 'first contact' plans in 2026 to prevent panic and confusion in an ...

Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got stranded on earth when his alien compadres abandoned their botany mission. In ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life. Tardigrades—a type of invertebrate ...

Then-former president George H.W. Bush allegedly had knowledge of the a meeting between an alien being and humans at an Air Force base in New Mexico in 1964. Getty Images The truth is out there — and ...