Some underrated sci-fi shows are better than they appear and may impress fans of the genre, including forgotten series like ...

If you've ever watched an elephant perform a delicate task with its trunk, the secret might lie in something easy to miss: whiskers. New research in Science finds that the hundreds of fine hairs ...

The Episode marks a major turning point for the series as the plot transitions from academy education to real-life situations, which threaten the lives of the young cadets. Star Trek: Starfleet ...

A team of researchers developed “parallel optical matrix-matrix multiplication” (POMMM), which could revolutionize tensor ...

A financial crisis could be triggered by an announcement that aliens exist, according to Helen McCaw, a former policy expert of the Bank of England. McCaw told The Times of London that politicians and ...

Ex-Bank of England analyst warns alien confirmation could trigger extreme market volatility and institutional breakdown “Ontological shock” from disclosure may cause bank runs, payment failures, and ...

There’s no denying the allure of alien artifacts. Science fiction is awash in the material remnants of extraterrestrial civilizations, which surface in everything from the classic books of Arthur C.

One day, probably far off in the very distant future, if astronomers are correct in their assumptions about the vastness of space, Earth will be visited by intelligent beings from another planet.

The search for extraterrestrial life in this vast universe needs all hands on deck. A crowd-sourced project from UC Berkeley called on volunteers to lend their home computers to search for signs of ...

A team of astronomers found no radio signals from the comet that would suggest it is an extraterrestrial spaceship. The comet was confirmed in July 2025 as the third known object to enter our solar ...

Ridley Scott's inimitable 1979 sci-fi thriller, Alien, expertly ratchets up the tension by not having the titular alien show up on screen until roughly an hour into the film. Following in Scott's ...