Director Ridley Scott recalls the time he received an unexpected call from Stanley Kubrick inquiring about the grossest scene ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

In July, researchers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System survey telescope in Chile made an exceedingly rare discovery: a mysterious object passing through the solar ...

As this interstellar object approached its closest point to Earth, a massive radio telescope attempted to sniff out a technosignature. Reading time 3 minutes From the moment astronomers discovered ...

"We all would have been thrilled to find technosignatures coming from 3I/ATLAS, but they're just not there." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible sign of life, known as a potential biosignature, on Mars. The Perseverance rover, which has been exploring a dried-up lakebed for years, found ...

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Some sci-fi classics took years to be appreciated, growing into legends only in hindsight, benefiting from gradual changes in cultural sensibilities. Conversely, a select few films arrived like ...

Aliens ended on a fragile found family, then Alien 3 totally wipes it away in a title sequence and drops Ripley into a setting where most of the new faces aren't the most exciting to follow. For some ...