With police cars blocking every route and no way out on the ground, E.T. does the most incredible thing — he raises his ...

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From insects to the moon, people have mistaken very Earthly phenomena for UFOs many times.

A set of protocols telling scientists what to do – and what not to do – if they ever detect evidence of intelligent life ...

The world is fair and square when it comes to celebrations. Nothing seems to escape the calendar. Almost every date has become some day. There are the popular o ...

Craig Gillespie’s far-out adventure is something of a quirky oddity compared to bigger blockbuster outings – so why is it failing to fly at the box office?

When the U.S. was born, humanity was still seven years away from balloon-borne flight. Where might we be another 250 years from now, should the nation be fortunate enough to survive that long?

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Take a drive to the CIA’s Area 51 – a route with more UFO sightings and unexplained mysteries than anywhere else on Earth ...

Independence Day didn’t invent or perfect the summer movie, but it arguably understood it better than anything since.

A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about where you live than about what consciousness really requires.

A Harvard astronomer, known for his provocative theories regarding extraterrestrial visits, has been selected by the White ...