A hoax 'alien invasion' alert in Brazil caused panic and amusement, revealing vulnerabilities in emergency systems. Authorities are investigating the breach.

That little alien emoji staring back from your phone, with its smooth, bulbous head and almond-shaped black eyes, has ...

A hacker who breached Brazil's national emergency alert system and pushed fake 'alien attack' warnings to millions of phones overnight has handed cybersecurity experts a working demonstration of a ...

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Imagine receiving an alert on your phone from a government agency at night, warning you about an alien attack, when you have barely made it onto your bed. That is what happened to thousands of ...

Long before modern space exploration, scientists proposed astonishing ways to contact extraterrestrials—from giant burning ...

Emily Blunt said she experimented with the alien language she uses in Steven Spielberg's "Disclosure Day" in her bathroom.

The voice behind the iconic 'E.T. phone home' line starred in just three films, but had one other role in an iconic beloved film ...

Group set up by Harvard professor Avi Loeb to advise White House, Pentagon, FBI and American intelligence community on ...

Hamilton and His Dark Materials star Lin-Manuel Miranda has revealed that he was in talks to play a major Spider-Man ...

In July 2025, astronomers spotted something remarkable passing through our Solar System, an object that had not come from anywhere nearby. Called 3I/ATLAS, it was travelling so fast and on such an ...

Let’s get one thing out of the way. I’m your resident science writer. Alien comets, tiny universes, and body parts are the ...