From our jokes and slang to the White House’s policy messaging, internet “brain rot” has escaped our phones to take over … ...

Absolutely not. This is obviously a trick question. It’s the equivalent of “Do you just love me for my looks?” There is no completely right answer. One thing I do know is that I have made an ...

Solar winds and coronal mass ejections may scatter narrow signals, making them harder for Earth-based telescopes to detect. The SETI Institute uses radio telescopes to search for signs of intelligent ...

E.T. could be phoning home — but we’re not hearing the call. A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal argues that “space weather” could be distorting incoming transmissions from ...

In 1979, Ridley Scott took a trip into a nightmarish region of space (fuelled by the real nightmares of H.R. Giger) and returned with a petrified crew and an extra passenger they'd rather not have ...

President Donald Trump's announcement that he will direct his administration to release government files related to aliens and associated phenomena has triggered a flurry of jokes and memes online. On ...

President Donald Trump talks to reporters on board Air Force One on Feb. 19, 2026. Reporter With talk of aliens making headlines in the past week, President Donald Trump announced Thursday night that ...

Former President Barack Obama said he did not see evidence that aliens "have made contact with us," after sending social media abuzz by saying aliens were real on a podcast over the weekend. During a ...

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...

Green-Wood Cemetery is going green on death. This week the Brooklyn burial ground announced a new option for leaving this world: composting corpses into nutrient-rich dirt. The nearly 200-year-old ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released a video honoring the life of an Illinois woman whose body was allegedly stuffed in a storage container and doused with bleach by an ...