The first unmistakable sign of extraterrestrial technology may not arrive as a calm greeting. It may look more like a flare.

What if humanity’s first unmistakable sign of alien technology is not a greeting, but a distress flare? That possibility sits at the center of a growing idea in technosignature research: the signals ...

How would people react if an alien civilization actually made contact with us? Space.com talked to experts, who shared a ...

A new catalog of potentially habitable exoplanets provides the framework for future observations in the search for alien life ...

Solar winds and coronal mass ejections may scatter narrow signals, making them harder for Earth-based telescopes to detect. The SETI Institute uses radio telescopes to search for signs of intelligent ...

Perhaps the reason Project Hail Mary hits the spot in the spring of 2026 is that novelist Andy Weir, who wrote the 2021 novel ...

A new Project Hail Mary clip shows Ryan Gosling figuring out how to communicate with an alien named Rocky. In the film, science teacher Ryland Grace wakes up on a spaceship light-years from home with ...

An investigation is underway after ICE agents arrested multiple people outside of a PennDOT drivers license center in ...

What would alien life from another planet be like? But we rarely ask the opposite: What would they think of us?

In addition to traveling through the final frontier, these Star Trek actors also stepped behind the camera to direct movies ...

In “What We Are Seeking,” the cult author Cameron Reed returns to show us a strange, totally alien world that somehow feels ...

During the first year of President Donald Trump's second term, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Enforcement and Removal Operations Houston arrested 414 illegal aliens charged or convicted ...