Nick Pope, who has died of cancer aged 60, was one of the few UFO hunters to have been on the British state payroll, as head of the Ministry of Defence division dealing with alien visitation; he ...

In the 1960s, secret test flights of advanced government spy planes generated UFO sightings. More recently, government and commercial drones, new kinds of satellites and errant weather balloons have ...

Every November, the Leonid meteor shower lights up the sky — a dazzling reminder that our planet is just one small part of a vast, mysterious cosmos. As shooting stars streak overhead, it’s hard not ...