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“Bugonia” refers to the ancient Greek belief that bees could spawn spontaneously from dead cow carcasses, and that cow dung was beneficial to the hive. It’s a myth, of course, but that didn’t stop ...

Steven Spielberg's 2026 film, Disclosure Day, sees the E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, War of the Worlds, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind director return to the alien genre so beloved by his fans.

Something very significant has been happening in plain sight, and almost no one seems to be noticing. Over the past few years, there have been televised congressional hearings, repeated news segments ...

If aliens are out there, why haven’t we heard from them? That’s the question at the center of Pop Mech’s new story, “Aliens Probably Exist—But They’re Staying Silent For a Reason, NASA Scientist ...

Since the 1950s, humanity has been searching for extraterrestrial life with increasingly sophisticated tools. But after decades of space probes, meteorite analysis, radio telescopes, and UFO ...

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 ...

As we await high-resolution images taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb is still not giving up hope that it could be ...

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 ...

FX has finally reached a verdict on the future of Alien: Earth following the explosive Season 1 finale. The studio has confirmed that Alien: Earth has been renewed and will move forward with another ...

Conspiracy theories have raged about 3I/ATLAS being an unnatural object. But the alien question, while fun, generates misinformation and distracts from the science. When you purchase through links on ...