Science over sensationalism: Tyson says the latest UFO file release offers no new proof of alien visits but is a chance to apply evidence-based thinking. Preparedness mindset: In his new book, Tyson ...

SIMON: Neil deGrasse Tyson, his new book "Take Me To Your Leader: Perspectives On Your First," - (laughter) I just noticed first, as opposed to... TYSON: (Laughter). SIMON: ...Only alien encounter.

Neil deGrasse Tyson has turned his lifelong fascination with aliens into a new book, “Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on ...

Why now?: Recent U.S. government UFO disclosures have reignited public debate, prompting Tyson to address alien preparedness from a scientific standpoint. Preparedness approach: Tyson advocates using ...

At the start of the new year, nuclear chemists Hiromitsu Haba and Kouji Morimoto slide precisely 119 Japanese yen into the collection box at their local shrine. They are seeking good fortune in their ...

In late 2025, astronomers spotted an interstellar comet making a quick trip through the solar system. 3I/ATLAS was discovered ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. When President Trump promised, in a social-media post in February, “to begin the process of identifying and ...

We see these nasty little bloaters in in episode 1 burrowing into a dead rat in the Maginot's onboard laboratory. It turns out to be a fairly gruesome foreshadowing of what they're capable of later in ...

Just over 40 years ago, in his novel Contact, astronomer Carl Sagan imagined what it would be like to detect radio signals beamed from other intelligent lifeforms in the galaxy. In the story, these ...

There have been supposed alien sightings for centuries. These observations of “unidentified flying objects,” or UFOs, have periodically surged, such as during the late 1940s and early 1950s as the ...

Earlier this year, President Trump directed agencies to begin the process of identifying and releasing files related to alien and extraterrestrial life. The first files were released May 8 at ...

This April, news reports linked the stinky gas dimethyl sulfide (DMS) in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet called K2-18b to possible life on it. The reports, prompted by work led by astronomer ...