A viral podcast moment last month reignited speculation about extraterrestrials and prompted President Donald Trump’s commitment to kickstarting the release of government files on flying saucers. But ...

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...

President Donald Trump wants to set the record straight on the existence of aliens. After former president Barack Obama made headlines for recently telling political host Brian Tyler Cohen that ...

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

Are aliens real? The question has animated conspiracy theories for decades and enthralled at least one former president of the United States. In a recent interview, Barack Obama became the first ...

Our search for extraterrestrial life has turned up empty, perhaps because technologically advanced civilizations are doomed ...

President Trump directed his administration to release files on UFOs and any "alien and extraterrestrial life," an issue that has drawn decades of fascination — and spawned more than a few wild ...

In a Truth Social post, the U.S. president said his move was based on the "tremendous interest" in the subject, without providing additional details.

What would happen if we finally confirmed alien life exists? The alien inquiry explores the scientific search for extraterrestrial organisms and intelligent civilizations. From distant planets to ...

After it reviewed Kalshi trading data, The Atlantic reports that a single trader just bet nearly $100,000 that the Trump ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

What: SETI Institute Artists-in-Residence present Exoplanetary Poetry, an art-science collaboration that trains artificial intelligence on exoplanet atmospheric chemi ...