Science fiction stories about “alien” invaders are often political allegories for anxieties around immigration. Now, a government website depicts non-citizens as extraterrestrials.

Asked when they humans will likely have contact with extraterrestrials, an eye-popping 21% said, “We already have,” according ...

Before collecting any fragments of alien spaceships, you must complete a routine safety assessment – according to the UFO Field Investigator’s Manual. The book reads: ‘Check the area for strong smells ...

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 ...

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 ...

There was a time in the not-too-distant past when you’d only encounter images of the president hanging with aliens at the checkout counter, tucked between Harlequin romance novels and issues of TV ...

Aliens have invaded the news again. Last month, two US presidents weighed in on the topic in rapid succession, managing to make a public that was already obsessed with extraterrestrials even more so.