Every few months, someone announces we’re on the verge of finding alien life, and the headlines go predictably insane. What rarely makes it into those stories is what the actual scientific community thinks—as opposed to the two or three researchers who picked up the phone.

The White House launched aliens.gov, a space-themed site with live illegal immigrant arrest data, ICE heat maps and a tip line to report aliens.

Did Donald Trump post a fake photo of himself walking with an alien? Yes, that's true: The president shared the photo of him walking next to an alien on his Truth Social account on May 17, 2026. An