District 9 was one of the best sci-fi movies of the 2000s, but Neill Blomkamp's follow-up is more poignant today.

Vietnam's premier billiards player Tran Quyet Chien has claimed the title at the 2025 Blois 3-Cushion Challenge, defeating ...

Want to be a top notch candidate for hosting alien life? Then there's a few key requirements you should be aware of: Ideally, you're a large object like a moon or a planet; scientists suspect you also ...

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...

Hidden within Cassiopeia A, the youngest known exploded star in our galaxy, astronomers have found surprisingly high levels of chlorine and potassium. These elements carry an odd number of protons in ...

That’s what most Americans believe, according to a new YouGov poll. The majority think that extraterrestrial aliens definitely or probably exist, the survey found, and many are also pretty sure ...

A documentary argues that the U.S. government needs to divulge what it knows about the phenomena formerly called U.F.O.s. By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed ...

A newly detected super-Earth just 20 light-years away is giving scientists one of the most promising chances yet to search for life beyond our solar system. The discovery of the exoplanet orbiting in ...

Scientists have just uncovered new evidence that Saturn’s moon Enceladus might be hiding alien life beneath its frozen surface. Thanks to data from NASA’s Cassini mission, researchers detected heat ...

Gabriela Radulescu has received funding from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum as a Guggenheim Postdoctoral Fellow (2024-2025), from the American Institute of Physics for a Grant-in-Aid, ...

Here are some recently released titles to add to your reading list. This week, we read First Contact: The Story of Our Obsession with Aliens, plus James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds' take on Dracula ...