The Latest Breaking News from Extraterrestrial

Dolls that turned up in an airport in Peru last year are ‘not extraterrestrials’

Colorado is going to great heights, literally, to market its tourist destinations. Sending a brochure into space in hopes of attracting alien visitors.

The delay to Nasa’s 10-year lunar programme gives us time to beef up the treaties governing the exploitation of extraterrestrial resources

As a widower with dementia, no one believes a UFO has crashed in Milton’s back yard or that he’s caring for an extraterrestrial – until his neighbours find out

Why are all living things carbon-based? Could extraterrestrial life instead be based on something like silicon?

It’s hard to imagine a more frightening existential threat than aliens landing on Earth, but one early sci-fi movie scared viewers on a visceral level by zooming into one eerily plausible way that extraterrestrials could invade our very bodies.

A new study calls for humanity to prepare for an encounter with extraterrestrial intelligence and examines the social consequences of such contact.

Humpback whale "conversations" provide valuable insight on how humans may one day communicate with life beyond Earth.

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) seeks to find life on other planets. Neutrinos, which interact weakly with matter, may be used to communicate with aliens. NU-SETI proposes setting up experiments to detect a non-uniform neutrino flux. METI, or Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence, is a programme to send messages to potential…

Is there life beyond Earth? The question has turned out to be one of the hardest to answer in science. Despite the seemingly boundless expanse of the universe, which implies there’s potential for abundant life, the vast distances between stars render the search akin to locating a needle in a…

If there's a story that refuses to die, it's the one about aliens.