At the heart of our galaxy lies a cosmic puzzle: although the Galactic Center is packed with star-making material, massive stars form there surprisingly slowly. Using NASA's retired SOFIA observatory, ...

Scientists just dropped the official 8 principles for alien contact -- yeah the IAA and SETI eggheads updated their decades-old rulebook so if we ever snag a real ET signal we verify it first, tell ...

Polygon Summer Game Fest 2026 Live game reveals, world premiere trailers, and what’s next from 40+ developers, publishers, and hardware makers. Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 is a co-op shooter where you ...

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist having a Eureka moment, realising in a single dramatic instant that Earth is ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Resident Alien has spent the past few years quietly building one of television’s most devoted fan bases, thanks in no small part to Alan Tudyk‘s delightfully oddball ...

Sega and Creative Assembly have finally officially revealed Alien: Isolation 2 with a new trailer at Summer Game Fest 2026. While the trailer stops short of announcing a release date or even a release ...

When the Trump administration registered the domains Aliens.gov and Alien.gov in March, UFO conspiracy theorists wondered whether they might finally get answers they’d long awaited. But coming on the ...

Ahead of the E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial director’s new alien movie Disclosure Day—which stars Josh O’Connor, Colman Domingo and Emily Blunt—hitting theaters, he shared why he’s never doubted the ...

The White House is mocking the idea of the U.S. retaining secrets involving alien encounters by launching a space-themed website that touts the arrests of immigrants unauthorized to live in the U.S.

The Pentagon has released another batch of ‘UFO Files’ with footage of unknown objects in the sky—here are the most common alien theories, explained. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn ...

There was a time in the not-too-distant past when you’d only encounter images of the president hanging with aliens at the checkout counter, tucked between Harlequin romance novels and issues of TV ...

Virgin Galactic’s first next-generation suborbital spaceplane was moved from an assembly hangar to a testing hangar as it nears completion. Credit: Virgin Galactic WASHINGTON — Virgin Galactic said ...