For more than a century, popular culture has trained us to picture extraterrestrials as bug-eyed, bipedal “little green men” ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

The unusual specimen raised eyebrows because it appeared capable of causing levitation. An official investigation has not ...

Polling shows that nearly half of Americans now believe aliens have visited this planet—and that the number who aren't sure ...

Following speculation that comets could have been alien spacecrafts, more and more experts in the field are convinced that ...

One of Britain’s most prominent space scientists believes humanity may finally get an answer to one of its oldest questions ...

Historically, many scientists and society have been fascinated by the prospect of making contact with extraterrestrial ...

In her new book "First Contact," journalist Becky Ferreira explores the scientific search for alien life, our cultural obsessions with extraterrestrials and why the truth may be more human than we ...

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Researchers in China have conducted the most thorough search yet for alien radio signals in the nearby TRAPPIST-1 system, which may harbor potentially Earth-like planets. When you purchase through ...

The following is an excerpt from First Contact: The Story of Our Obsession with Aliens, by Becky Ferreira. When you purchase products through the Bookshop.org link on this page, Science Friday earns a ...