For more than a century, popular culture has trained us to picture extraterrestrials as bug-eyed, bipedal “little green men” who look suspiciously like us in rubber suits. The scientists who actually ...

The question of whether aliens exist is not a new one. In science fiction films and books, people have wondered if we’re the only life in this universe and what that can imply for universes beyond ...

Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got ...

The sci-fi movie “Disclosure Day” predicts that our reaction to intelligent alien life will be chaotic. But what does the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about education, edtech and higher education. Samples tested for toxic metals at a lab of Columbia University in New York, ...

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist having a Eureka moment, realising in a single dramatic instant that Earth is ...

Scientists have identified new clues that could help astronomers spot one of the most famous hypothetical alien ...