Some of the smartest people on the planet — Nobel Prize winners, theoretical physicists, Silicon Valley billionaires — ...

I have seen the lofty walls of Babylon and the Zeus statue by the Alpheios River. The Hanging Gardens and the colossus of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spielberg and ET looking at each other - Aaron Rapoport/Getty Images Steven Spielberg might be best known for "Jaws" and "Jurassic ...

A top U.S. Air Force general linked to the military's alleged research on UFOs has gone missing – and experts are calling his mysterious disappearance a "grave national security crisis," ...

Measurements of this interstellar comet’s molecular makeup show an excess of heavy water molecules that is dramatically different from anything known to have ever formed around our sun ...

Melissa Quinn is a senior reporter for CBSNews.com, where she covers U.S. politics, with a focus on the Supreme Court and federal courts. Washington — A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered an end ...

Many people like to look up at the night sky, admire the stars, and wonder if humans are alone in the galaxy or universe. Sure, many like to imagine that they're not, as demonstrated by the countless ...

Just over 40 years ago, in his novel Contact, astronomer Carl Sagan imagined what it would be like to detect radio signals beamed from other intelligent lifeforms in the galaxy. In the story, these ...

Noah Hawley, the man behind Fargo, the upcoming Far Cry TV adaptation, and Alien: Earth has revealed that Season 2 of the science fiction show is close to beginning to film at Pinewood Studios in ...

Rep. Tim Burchett said during a Tuesday interview that he believes aliens exist, citing government briefings, pilot testimony and what he described as video and photographic evidence shown to him by ...

A new study proposes a shift in the search for extraterrestrial life, moving away from individual biosignatures toward ...