One expert believes that, by judging how much time has passed in the Universe, humans are fairly newcomers. By this reasoning, aliens, if they are out there, would have had much more time to evolve ...

All fiction is metaphor,” wrote Ursula K Le Guin. “Science fiction is metaphor.” The writer, most famous for her Earthsea fantasy novels, captured the civil rights movement, second-wave feminism and ...

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

Eerie footage of an unexplained bright blue light appearing in the sky has led some to believe it could be evidence of a UFO. The dark sky suddenly shone with a distant light that glowed across both ...

16:53, Tue, Oct 17, 2017 Updated: 16:59, Tue, Oct 17, 2017 Due to humanity’s relative youth, some experts believe civilisations could have sprung up around the universe billions of years ago, with ...

A TikToker claiming to be a time traveller from 2236 has issued a stark warning to their followers, including a claim that Europe will be struck by a “deadly meteor” in autumn. Article continues below ...

Scientists warn humanity that the first contact with an alien civilisation may be loud, chaotic and extreme, potentially ...

SCIENTISTS may have found a solution to a cosmic quandary that has baffled alien-hunters for decades. In a recent research paper, two astrobiologists provide a new theory to explain why we’ve never ...

AN OXFORD academic urged caution as scientists proposed an update to the message beamed to aliens – warning that space messages shouldn’t be sent out ‘willy nilly’. An international team of scientists ...