Your phone buzzes with a breaking news alert: "Astronomers detect unusual signal from distant star system." Within hours, social media explodes with alien conspiracy theories, deepfake "evidence," and ...

People were allegedly advised to call the United Nations' "alien communications specialist" if they made contact with extraterrestrial life.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The great physicist Enrico Fermi first posed the challenging question over half a century ago, wondering why we appear to be alone ...

The truth is out there — and late President George H.W. Bush apparently knew it — telling a federal official that an alien made contact with humans at a secretive New Mexico air base in 1964, ...

Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got stranded on earth when his alien compadres abandoned their botany mission. In ...