The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to sci-fi movie depictions, our first contact might not be with a super advanced alien civilization at the height of power. Rather, Ivy League ...

Claims that the Nazca mummies represent a new alien species originate from a self-published paper by a retired paleontologist. A detailed peer review challenges these conclusions, identifying the ...

A strange metallic monolith was discovered deep in the Utah desert, and very few people knew where it was. Using flight data, terrain clues, and instinct, the location was quietly tracked down. The ...

The year in network security was not a particularly dramatic one, defined in some strange way by the after effects of Salt Typhoon as opposed to any new and devastating attacks. Outside of networks, ...

The pilot of a private plane reportedly made an eerie discovery while flying thousands of feet over Rhode Island, marking the latest in unexplained encounters baffling both experts and civilians alike ...

One look at the punishing fitness routine Taylor Swift endured to prep for the Eras Tour and it’s easy to see why she’d be ready to shake it off for good. “I’ve never worked out this much in my life, ...

CBS News suddenly shelved a “60 Minutes” segment featuring the accounts of Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration to a notorious maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Now one of its own ...

Left, the cast of "Stranger Things: The First Shadow" on Broadway; right, Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven in "Stranger Things" Season 4. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Jamie McCarthy/Getty ...