Theological debates suggest alien encounters might challenge religious traditionalists more than dismantle faith.

Valley’s role | Compete respectfully | Stunted potential. Mercury News reader letters to the editor for June 17, 2026.

Legendary movie director Steven Spielberg sparked a viral reaction with recent comments questioning how alien disclosure ...

Our search for technosignatures—clear signs of advanced civilizations beyond Earth—takes many forms. Many are driven by the famous Drake equation, which attempts to estimate how many technological ...

Steven Spielberg returns to one of his favorite subjects in "Disclosure Day," but there are lot of things in the sci-fi ...

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

Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that consciousness is likely 'substrate flexible', challenging the ...

For generations, the search for life beyond Earth has focused on avoiding one of science’s biggest mistakes: claiming a ...

It’s impossible to separate UFO legends and lore from the Cold War, which led to a culture of secrecy in the military and public paranoia that the truth was being concealed. According to the ...

Eight weeks ago, Oliver Tree finally released the album he had spent two years making across 80 countries. He called it the ...

Too expensive | Valley’s role | Compete respectfully. East Bay Times reader letters to the editor for June 17, 2026.

An ICE officer was struck by a fleeing vehicle in Stafford on Monday morning, June 15. The downed officer fired shots at the ...