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 ...

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Following the government's release of declassified UAP files, the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) updated its list of eight principles that were designed to guide our search for ...

Steven Spielberg is sometimes unfairly tagged as the ultimate Boomer, repeatedly harkening back to the entertainment that spellbound him in his youth. And there was a time, far earlier in his career, ...

01:23, Wed, Jun 3, 2026 Updated: 01:36, Wed, Jun 3, 2026 A former CIA "psychic spy" claims to have identified the exact coordinates of several highly classified alien bases concealed beneath the Earth ...

As Steven Spielberg releases a new film on extraterrestrials, here's a brief history of modern alien conspiracies and why scientists are now taking UFO reports seriously. Amid all the unanswered ...

The Barron Trump-backed beverage brand he started with "a group of close friends ages 19-23" from South Florida has launched its first product. SOLLOS Yerba Mate, the beverage company in which the ...

I always felt bad for Larry, Josef Sommer’s character in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). In Steven Spielberg’s magnum opus about UFOs and the governments who cover them up, Larry is a true ...

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A new exoplanet model screens rocky worlds by their ability to retain atmospheres over geologic timescales, helping narrow the search for potentially habitable planets beyond Earth.