If you've been following exoplanet research over the last couple of years, you've definitely heard of K2-18b. Located 124 light years away in the constellation Leo, it's attracted a lot of attention ...

Our fascination with the cosmos has led to many great UFO movies being produced, some of which never got the audience they deserve.

A viral Obama podcast answer about aliens prompted Trump to accuse him of revealing secrets and promise to release UFO files ...

A Predator crashes an underground martial arts tournament in Predator: Bloodshed #1, and suddenly everyone's fighting for ...

Sound Off is an opinion forum for Mercury readers to offer brief comments on today’s news. Submissions must be 75 words or ...

Elon Musk outlines exciting plans for Moonbase Alpha featuring mass drivers to launch AI satellites into deep space. The ...

Director Roland Emmerich’s 1996 alien invasion movie Independence Day arrives on Netflix today and I, for one, can’t wait to watch the film for what might be the 50th time. Sure, there are plenty of ...

The S&P 500 is flashing a warning signal that was last seen in the dot-com era. The year 1871 isn't exactly the most noteworthy in American history. Six years after the American Civil War ended, the ...

For over two decades, millions of people volunteered the computational capacity of their computers to help UC Berkeley scientists in their search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). The goal of ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

In July, researchers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System survey telescope in Chile made an exceedingly rare discovery: a mysterious object passing through the solar ...