Robert Wise's 1971 sci-fi thriller raises pertinent questions about human fragility.

In a small New Mexico town called Piedmont, 66 of its 68 residents lay dead, their bodies seeming to fall right where they stood or sat — in their homes, at the store, in the street. Only two ...

New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder ...

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

We may be missing alien radio signals because they have become smeared beyond the narrowband detectors that SETI utilizes, a new study suggests.

Scientists simulated an asteroid impact, and Deinococcus radiodurans’ cell membranes made it through. This suggests that life ...

Many people who don’t believe one conspiracy theory about that station—known as the High-frequency Active Auroral Research ...

Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. We've got a lot of new and upcoming games to ...

When Stargate Atlantis premiered in 2004, more than expanding the Stargate universe, it launched an entirely new sci-fi adventure built around exploration, discovery and the mystery of ancient ...

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President Donald Trump has once again done what he often does best in moments of war and tension: he dropped just enough language to ignite a firestorm of speculation, without giving the public ...