Elon Musk has turned a long-running joke about being an extraterrestrial into a central part of his public persona, even as he argues that humanity may be the only intelligent life in the universe.

NASA officials have previously spoken of the possibility of extraterrestrial life amid scientific uncertainty while ...

Wondering whether we're alone in the cosmos is almost a rite of passage for human existence. It's a mystery that scientists – and stargazers – have pondered for many years. The Fermi Paradox poses a ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

It is not the least of this world’s wonders that it’s been nearly half a century since Ellen Ripley, in the person of Sigourney Weaver, sent the Alien, in the person of a person in an Alien suit, ...