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The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist ...

With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination ...

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Asked when they humans will likely have contact with extraterrestrials, an eye-popping 21% said, “We already have,” according ...

We're disclosing what Steven Spielberg, Demi Lovato, Tom Cruise and more celebrities have said about the possibility that the ...

If and when SETI discovers alien life, a revised Declaration of Principles guarantees once the discovery has been verified, ...

In 1977, Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind imagined contact with aliens as an event inspiring awe. Five ...

What Steven Spielberg's new alien movie reveals about our UFO obsessions.