Bill Diamond is CEO of the SETI Institute and was called the "Chief Alien Hunter" by the Telegraph. He leads one of the world's most extraordinary scientific missions, and he will be talking to us ...

The search for alien life no longer feels like a fringe idea or a distant fantasy. This video walks through the strongest clues ever put forward, from unexplained signals to possible fossils and signs ...

Astronomers have just revealed the most promising places in the universe to search for extraterrestrial life, identifying almost 50 rocky worlds that are most likely to be habitable. In their study, ...

Steven Spielberg took a bit of a jab at Timothée Chalamet’s recent comments alluding to the cultural irrelevance of art forms like ballet and opera, during an appearance Friday at SXSW. Asked about ...

For someone who’s made as many alien movies as he has, you’d think Steven Spielberg would be a full-on tinfoil-hat believer. But the director of such sci-fi classics as E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, ...

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 ...

A new method to recognise the chemical properties of living things could help us detect alien life even if it functions differently from life on Earth. When searching for alien life, scientists ...

Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of thousands of exoplanets, or planets that orbit other stars, and is potentially the ...

On Feb. 14, former President Barack Obama was asked a question during an interview with political podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen. “Are aliens real?” “They’re real,” Obama replied, “but I haven’t seen ...

Paul Thigpen, the noted theologian and convert to the Catholic faith known for his prolific writing career that included an in-depth survey of extraterrestrial life and the Catholic Church, died on ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a visit to Sierra Space in Louisville, Colorado, on Feb. 23, 2026. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon is “working” on identifying and ...

In the 1990s, the Central Intelligence Agency dug into all it knew about the possibility of extraterrestrial visits, ultimately revealing what it found: Most of the supposed early UFO sightings were ...