Around 40 light years away from Earth, hidden in the constellation Pisces, there is a small alien world that has captured the ...

NASA's next flagship space telescope could change not only how scientists search for life beyond Earth, but also how spacecraft are maintained in orbit. The agency's proposed Habitable Worlds ...

Scientists are calling for a lunar quarantine facility where samples from Mars, the Moon, and beyond would be examined before being brought to Earth. They warn that even a tiny alien microorganism ...

A recently discovered "super Earth" located around 25 light-years from our planet is not as massive as previously thought, ...

Thus far, our search for extraterrestrial life points toward Clarke’s former point, suggesting that our little blue dot is ...

A set of protocols telling scientists what to do – and what not to do – if they ever detect evidence of intelligent life ...

From "Independence Day" to "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", movies and TV shows are packed with advice for anyone aspiring ...

With the release of "Disclosure Day," Steven Spielberg's new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself resurfaces: If aliens were to arrive on Earth, would they come to conquer us ...

The membrane separating movies from TV has never been thinner, as one of Hollywood's biggest franchises suddenly has more prosects on the small screen than the cinema. FX has renewed Alien: Earth for ...

Spielberg’s 2005 thriller War of the Worlds is about a global invasion by extraterrestrial tripod war machines - Landmark Media/Alamy Steven Spielberg believes aliens have visited Earth. The Hollywood ...