This weekend, more than 20 years after his last extraterrestrial-focused feature, Steven Spielberg returns to his roots with Disclosure Day. The movie draws from the filmmaker's career-spanning fascination with the possibility that life exists somewhere other than Earth.

“If this truth were just known overnight, that would mess up a lot of people,” says Spielberg about the impact of disclosing alien life.

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

A group of bipartisan lawmakers is pushing for the White House to grant UFO whistleblowers immunity amid the Trump administration’s continued release of files related to alleged encounters with

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

Steven Spielberg's new alien thriller, "Disclosure Day," is significantly outperforming box office expectations, projected to gross $42.5 million domestically by Sunday. This strong opening would secure its place as the director's fifth-biggest debut,