A mysterious metal shard, once thought to be a piece of a UFO that crashed in 1947, has sparked years of wild speculation.

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

Pocock, a space scientist at University College London and BBC presenter, predicts alien life will be found by 2075 but ...

A planet that is snuggled up closely with its host star may be igniting colossal flares that strip it of its own mass. In a first-of-its-kind observation, astronomers have found a giant exoplanet in ...

Astronomers thought they had seen the "first hints of life on an alien world" this year, but they disappeared under closer ...

For more than a century, from George Melies’ A Trip to the Moon to Stephen Spielberg’s E.T. and Close Encounters to this summer’s blockbuster sequel to Independence Day, mass media, and the general ...