Barack Obama sparked a debate after seeming to confirm aliens are “real” on a podcast. The comment came as Congress continues ...

In my Contemporary Issues senior seminar course this semester, my students and I have been reading The Anxious Generation, a book by social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, that explores how smartphones ...

When we imagine alien life, we picture monsters, insects, or tentacles—but what if the most realistic aliens are human-like? Evolution tends to solve the same problems with similar designs, and ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

Alien technology. Government cover-ups. And ghosts? All may be calling Wright-Patterson Air Force Base home, according to author and former base employee Ray Szymanski. Szymanski will be discussing ...

When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to sci-fi movie depictions, our first contact might not be with a super advanced alien civilization at the height of power. Rather, Ivy League ...

Officials revealed that an alleged human smuggling operation involving over a dozen individuals has been uncovered inside a Texas home. Authorities with the Texas Department of Public Safety and ...

Any chance we get to send Jess Ripper out to take photos of Avatar, we’ll usually take it. I always say you should try to write about or take photos of a subject you enjoy and she enjoys Avatar. You ...

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...