As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters ...

In 2016, during the first Trump campaign, I wrote an article asking whether American democracy could survive the reduction of politics to entertainment. At the time, the question seemed exaggerated to ...

A lot of money and engineering time has been invested in transporting humans to the red planet, including more than $15 billion on Starship development. Musk envisions a flotilla of several thousand ...

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself ...

Elon Musk, the first private individual worth more than a thousand billion dollars (one trillion), launched SpaceX stock on ...

The surprising discovery of mysterious blobs inside our cells is revolutionising our understanding of how life works, and how ...

Pomacea canaliculata, commonly known as the apple snail, is a pest commonly found in Hong Kong's wetlands and farmlands. It ...

Maybe we did not create life in the biological sense, but maybe we created something stranger: an alien form of ...

The website, which compares human beings to extraterrestrials, touts arrest numbers from the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown. But some of its details are really out there.

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life.