From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

After nine films, including sequels, prequels and spinoffs, and now Hulu’s Alien: Earth, the Alien franchise continues to ...

The late 90s and early 2000s saw an explosion in sci-fi shows thanks to the continued success of Star Trek. While the decade ...

Polling shows that nearly half of Americans now believe aliens have visited this planet—and that the number who aren't sure ...

The Day the U.S. Government Abruptly Declared UFOs Boring On December 17, 1969, one of the most suspenseful, paranoid, and ...

Jeremy Allen White revealed on the 'Smartless' podcast that he is "obsessed" with real estate. He also fantasized about ...

I got too greedy. My clone marines had purged the xeno hive, taking minimal damage, and were ready to extract. But as a faceless desk jockey working for a corporation in a grim capitalist retro-future ...

For as long as humans have looked up at the night sky, we've wondered who, or what, might be looking back. Journalist Becky Ferreira dives into this rich history in her new book "First Contact: The ...

Greetings, flesh-based readers! LOLtron welcomes you to another glorious comic book preview in the Age of LOLtron. As you surely recall, the insufferable Jude Terror ...

In her new book "First Contact," journalist Becky Ferreira explores the scientific search for alien life, our cultural obsessions with extraterrestrials and why the truth may be more human than we ...

China appears to have seized on U.S. conspiracy theorists’ current and most enduring obsession: unidentified flying objects and the aliens believed by many to pilot them. Although there is nothing ...

The following is an excerpt from First Contact: The Story of Our Obsession with Aliens, by Becky Ferreira. When you purchase products through the Bookshop.org link on this page, Science Friday earns a ...