“You will, no doubt, be familiar with the 1995 footage of a supposed alien autopsy,” said Sarah Dempster in The Guardian, in which, over the course of 18 minutes, figures in hazmat suits dissect the ...

Even at this early stage in our spacefaring age, humanity has already begun sending probes that will eventually reach other solar systems, even if that was not their original intention. Five robotic ...

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It’s true! Spielberg didn’t come up with the title out of thin air — Disclosure Day is a real thing that organizations like the SETI Institute (which stands for Search for Extraterrestrial ...

Running time: 145 minutes. PG-13 (Some bloody images, action, violence, strong language). In theaters June 12. Neither, actually. “Disclosure Day” hews closer to “Minority Report,” with a man on the ...

When the Trump administration registered the domains Aliens.gov and Alien.gov in March, UFO conspiracy theorists wondered whether they might finally get answers they’d long awaited. But coming on the ...

The S&P 500 was on track to finish higher Monday after posting nine straight weeks of gains. Based on historical data going back to 1950, the S&P 500 has tended to lose some momentum immediately after ...

The S&P 500's 9-week rally added $11 trillion in value, but a small cluster of AI and semiconductor stocks is driving almost all the gains. Technology now controls 35% of the S&P 500, making today's ...

U.S. stocks and oil rallied, with the S&P 500 logging a ninth straight weekly gain and Brent crude hovering near $92 a barrel on hopes for a U.S.-Iran ceasefire extension. Major cryptocurrencies ...

The White House has launched a website that, at first glance, appears to offer classified intelligence about extraterrestrials. In actuality, it provides information on the arrests of immigrants.