Aliens

And other stories from the stranger side of life

And other stories from the stranger side of life

And other stories from the stranger side of life

And other stories from the stranger side of life

And other stories from the stranger side of life

And other stories from the stranger side of life

‘Suitcase-sized and silver in colour’ - military pilots’ encounters with ‘unexplained aerial phenomena’

Astrobiologist responds to claim by Britain’s first astronaut that extraterrestrials may live among us

Conspiracists and party-goers on rural Nevada for ‘Storm Area 51’ event

Repeating bursts of radio waves detected for second time in history

British man died in Poland after telling mother his life was in danger

Edwardian-era retelling of HG Wells’s classic 1898 novel stars Eleanor Tomlinson, Rafe Spall and Robert Carlyle

Government hoped to harvest alien technology in order to develop superweapons

Linguists including Noam Chomsky say earthlings and extraterrestrials may share similar kind of grammar

Multi-million dollar programme to investigate flying objects may have had a more practical purpose

World War II prime minister predicted space travel and was open to the idea that extra-terrestrials existed

Heavy rains cause mass-hatching of shield shrimp that lay dormant under soil for years - and other tall tales

Critics praise Amy Adams's 'stellar' performance in a 'grown-up sci-fi drama' about alien contact

US intelligence agency has rounded up some cases that Mulder and Scully might enjoy

Experts suggest star clumps could harbour networks of civilisations

US space agency to send astronauts 'in near future' after evidence of flowing water found on red planet

Simon Conway Morris argues that human-like species could easily evolve on any other Earth-like planet