It’s late on a clear night. You’re driving down a winding county highway—no headlights for miles—and you steer the car over to the shoulder. You get out, wait for the dome light to blink off, and ...

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...

Humanity's ideas about aliens have been evolving for millennia – but in the era before television, they were considerably stranger. In October 1961, Betty and Barney Hill sat down with an astronomy ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Hughes is an entertainment writer covering cinema and genre TV. Increased efforts to locate intelligent extraterrestrial ...

Belief in aliens has persisted for centuries, and one-third of Americans believe that UFOs people have spotted have been alien spacecraft visiting Earth from other planets or galaxies, according to a ...

Almost 60 years ago, an account emerged of aliens from a planet around Proxima Centauri. It's been largely forgotten, but now that we know the planet is real, does the wild story deserve another look?

When Alien burst onto the scene in 1979, capturing the attention of audiences worldwide with its terrifying creature, it wasn’t obviously the seed of a decades-long franchise phenomenon. But James ...

When Earth gets to be too much, there's nothing quite like heading to the stars with an unforgettable space movie. Hollywood's fascination with outer space has led to an abundance of movies featuring ...

Aliens: Dark Descent is billed as a real-time action game, carefully skirting the real-time strategy classification. This new classification is not a gimmick. Tindalos Interactive has produced a tense ...

“Look at the incredible diversity of biotypes here on Earth, all of which evolved under the same planetary environment. I don’t believe an alien species from an entirely different biochemical ...

What if we finally make contact with aliens, but they don’t realize we are actually intelligent life forms? In a recent paper in The International Journal of Astrobiology, bioethicists Konrad Szocik ...