Scientists updated first contact protocols for 2026, requiring multiple verification steps and UN consultation before announcing alien discoveries or sending replies.

If and when SETI discovers alien life, a revised Declaration of Principles guarantees once the discovery has been verified, its disclosure will come soon after.

If there’s no proof of aliens, the president can blame the deep state. If there’s proof, he’s a hero. Either way, it helps his popularity, says writer Daniel Lavelle

A remote stretch of desert. A field littered with strange metallic debris. Military officials rushing to the scene. And a headline that would ignite one of the most famous conspiracy theories in history.

Science fiction stories about “alien” invaders are often political allegories for anxieties around immigration. Now, a government website depicts non-citizens as extraterrestrials.

Newly declassified UFO files from NASA's Apollo missions challenge long-running conspiracy theories that the historic Moon landings were faked in a studio.

The claim that their loved ones’ deaths and disappearances are linked is almost certainly false — but the loss remains real.