Steven Spielberg has spent more than half a century asking us to look to the skies. With Disclosure Day, he's done it again. So why, after decades of UFOs, alien visitors and ominous objects hovering ...

Scientists say first contact with aliens won't be a quiet whisper—it'll be loud, detectable, and closer than you think. Here's why extraterrestrial life might finally reveal itself.

When Christopher Columbus first came ashore in the Caribbean in 1492, he made first contact with what was, to him, an unfamiliar world. While his journey took place on ships rather than spacecraft, ...

Alien first-contact stories are a classic of science fiction, and they're all the more fascinating because they can feel like predictions of a possible future. Real scientists all over the world are ...