The SETI Institute said Wednesday that extensive radio scans by its telescope in Northern California found no signs of ...

If advanced aliens lived on a planet within a few hundred to a thousand light years away from Earth, then vast numbers of their signals must already have crossed Earth without being noticed, a new ...

By studying Earth's toughest microbes and complex animal "speech", scientists are reshaping how we search for – and may ...

The Department of Homeland Security is touting the arrest of an illegal alien in New York who allegedly set fire to several cars, an arrest it says was made possible by the cooperation of local ...

Humanity has spent eons looking up at the stars and wondering whether we’re alone, or if there are others like us out there in the vast unknown. Our curiosity has only increased as we have become a ...

The US has suggested that the government need only refund importers who sue, and that the judge’s order is effectively a ...

SIMON: Neil deGrasse Tyson, his new book "Take Me To Your Leader: Perspectives On Your First," - (laughter) I just noticed first, as opposed to... TYSON: (Laughter). SIMON: ...Only alien encounter.

The buzz about aliens began in the summer of 1947. The US army sightings of “flying saucers” fuelled widespread speculations about visiting aliens, urging the US to launch its first highly classified ...

In the early evening hours on November 26th, 1977, the nightly Independent Television News broadcast signal was interrupted. People all across southern England were watching newscaster Andrew Gardner ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. When President Trump promised, in a social-media post in February, “to begin the process of identifying and ...

Twenty nine years ago, the RN&R interviewed Leonard Nimoy, who for decades was a part-time Lake Tahoe resident.