The search for alien intelligence is entering a new phase as scientists expand beyond traditional radio signal searches and ...

Giant Rock isn't just the world's largest freestanding boulder - it's one of the strangest places in America. Hidden in ...

With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination with extraterrestrials.

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As for those salt clouds, the salt is not table salt or even Pink Himalayan Rock Salt, though that would go splendidly with ...

American Religious Belief in Extraterrestrial Life (Princeton Univ., Sept.) argues that several American religious traditions have long believed in that aliens exist—and want to help us.

The case involves a dozen members of Falun Gong, a spiritual movement that China’s government crushed through force.

Brad Bird's "Ray Gunn" made a splash at this year's Annecy International Animation Film Festival, with it taking center stage ...

Astronomers studying the atmospheres of several intensely heated exoplanets uncovered an unexpected pattern that may reveal a ...

For years the NBA has wondered what would happen if it had a giant who could do everything. The San Antonio Spurs star has given us an answer ...

Spielberg returns to one of his favorite subjects with a fun and goofy popcorn movie that shows how far he's come in the last 50 years.