James Cameron has confirmed a long standing urban myth about his 'Aliens' pitch. The 68-year-old filmmaker - who wrote and directed the 1986 sequel to Ridley Scott's legendary sci-fi horror - has long ...

On Dec. 18, just 24 hours before its closest approach, the Green Bank Telescope scanned frequencies from 1 to 12 GHz. Their ...

A Harvard University astrophysicist has sparked a furious debate by warning he cannot rule out that extraterrestrials are ...

A typical Hollywood alien is "soft, squishy and big on mucus," in the words of Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif. These sci-fi lumps of goo are inclined to ...

From a meteor crashing down off the coast of South Florida, to former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-N.V.) accusing Lockheed-Martin of housing UFO fragments, to the widely popular “Ancient ...

Ever since Plato first wrote about the mysterious island of Atlantis, it has captured the imagination of adventurers and academics alike. Was Atlantis merely a myth, or could it have actually existed ...

Humanity's ideas about aliens have been evolving for millennia – but in the era before television, they were considerably stranger. In October 1961, Betty and Barney Hill sat down with an astronomy ...

Chur is Switzerland’s best kept secret lying in plain sight. Train travellers seeking unbeatable Alpine views often use this pint-sized city as a transfer point for the world-famous Glacier Express ...