Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist who is the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. He is the author of “Take Me To Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter.”

Over the last decade, since the work of a shadowy government program called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was made public in 2017, there has been growing public pressure on the US government to release its files related to aliens. At the same time, UFOs have been rebranded as Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon, or UAP.

Until the U.S. government has data or samples of alien material that can be shared, the story of extraterrestrial visitors is just a story.

Area 51 has been a topic of conversation among conspiracy theorists for decades, with many believing that aliens are kept at the base. Area 51 is a top-secret United States Air Force facility at Groom Lake,

(Photo by ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images) Bzzzzzzrt! That was my phone late last night with a text from my sister. “Obama just said Aliens are Real! What do you think?” I’ve been here before. As an ...

Aliens are in the news again. Not because we’ve recently spotted some new craft that looks like it might just belong to an all-wise extraterrestrial being, but because conspiracy theorists and rabbit-hole-diving hobbyists are excited about a slew of ...

Don't they have something to do ? Even if there were any other life forms in the universe, the distance is far to great to make observation/communication likely. I ...