A new book by authors Richard Dolan and Bryce Zabel explores what might happen if UFOs turned out to really be from another world. There are some insightful ideas contained in this book, regrettably packaged with credulity-straining aspects of the ‘disclosure’ movement. The consequences of extraterrestrial contact are much more important and vital...

Annie Jacobsen’s recent bestseller is a curiously unbalanced book: on one hand it reads as a sober historical account of one of America’s most prevailing twentieth-century mysteries; on the other hand it relishes in the intrigue and mythology surrounding Area 51 to such an extent that one isn’t sure by the end if they are closer or...

From very tentative beginnings, astrobiology is experiencing the intellectual version of a Cambrian explosion, as interest in the field attracts talented young scientists and research centers sprout up in universities around the world. One such researcher is Lewis Dartnell, who holds a faculty position in Experimental Biology at the University College...

Paul Davies is a physics professor and popular science writer with an impressive list of titles to his name. While topics that he has covered include biological evolution and Einstein’s theory of relativity, he has given considerable reflection to the question of extraterrestrial life. As a managing member of the SETI program, Davies has invested...

Within the next decades, advances in scientific observation and technology will enable humanity to begin answering questions that have endured since the beginning of civilization. Among those, how did life first emerge on our planet, could the same process have happened elsewhere, and are we alone in the vast universe? Already, we’ve taken our...