Columbia University professor David Kipping predicts humanity's first alien encounter will be with a rare, "loud" ...

Over the last century of cinematic sci-fi, movies like Planet of the Apes and The Thing have produced some of the most ...

The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence would rank alongside fire and writing in the story of our species, ...

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Samus Aran, the science fiction protagonist in the Metroid series, is arguably Nintendo’s most mysterious character. She ...

Depending on who you ask — and what you’re willing to believe — aliens are real. And they’ve visited Vandenberg Space Force ...

For a certain type of science-fiction fan, Exodus was the biggest announcement out of the 2025 Game Awards. Those fans just ...

Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

Looking ahead, the comet will pass roughly 33 million miles from Jupiter in March 2026. Loeb noted the scientific value: monitoring 3I/ATLAS with the Juno spacecraft could reveal unusual activity, ...

Although revered today, classic sci-fi movies like Blade Runner and The Thing were widely misunderstood and underappreciated ...

Astronomer Avi Loeb argued that other objects like interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS could be useful for reaching out to aliens, if they exist.

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...