Discover how the music of Rick and Morty brings alien worlds to life with inventive compositions and unexpected creative choices.

Research indicates airport radar systems may unintentionally broadcast Earth's presence to aliens up to 200 lightyears away, ...

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 ...

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions comes up with an epic extraterrestrial playlist for Earth’s first contact from beyond the stars ...

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

From the lightbulb to the airplane, to medical breakthroughs and the internet age, the past 250 years have been defined by ...

A NASA‑linked study argues that alien probes could already be in our Solar System, but our surveys are still too crude to rule them out. From misidentified rocket boosters to blurry moon maps, it ...

ON AN August evening in 1995 there was a worldwide broadcast of an 18 minute, grainy black and white film that caused a sensation. According to the report it had been kept secret by the US ...

New global rule: Astronomers must not publicly announce or respond to alien signals until verified and cleared through UN channels. Why the change: Protocols now address risks from social media, AI ...

Even with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)—one of the most advanced astronomical instruments ever built—we still don’t get enough data to confirm signs of life beyond Earth. Detecting life on a ...

The United States government’s recent release of hundreds of previously classified Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) cases spanning the 1940s to the present, along with the new Steven Spielberg ...