In 2023, Grusch gave NewsNation his first on-the-record interview, claiming the government had vehicles of non-human origin.

Emily Blunt’s acclaimed extraterrestrial thriller remains the gold standard as her new sci-fi release, Disclosure Day, faces a rocky start.

When ET phones, don’t pick up. Scientists have outlined a set of protocols for responding to extraterrestrial contact, including a bizarre directive to refrain from answering cosmic correspondence. Adopted by the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA),

New SETI protocols outline how scientists should verify, share, and respond to potential evidence of alien intelligence in the modern information age.

The IAA SETI Committee has updated rules for evaluating and revealing the detection of extraterrestrial intelligence.

If and when SETI discovers alien life, a revised Declaration of Principles guarantees once the discovery has been verified, its disclosure will come soon after.

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist having a Eureka moment, realising in a single dramatic instant that Earth is being visited by creatures from light-years away.

It may seem like we are on the verge of discovering alien life. In 2025, a press release stated that we have the "strongest hints yet" of extraterrestrial life on the exoplanet K2-18b. And when talking about a collected sample from a rock named "Cheyava Falls" on Mars,