It is also, underneath the spectacle, a civic parable. Its premise rests on five ideas that have little to do with space travel and everything to do with how a society functions u ...

Scientists may have found a powerful new way to hunt for alien life — not by searching for specific molecules, but by looking for hidden patterns in how those molecules are organized. Researchers ...

Rod Pyle, Editor in Chief of Ad Astra Magazine, joins John Landecker on the program to discuss the first two films in the Alien franchise. John, Rod, and Breandan discuss the highs, lows, meaning ...

Though the series’ protagonist is an alien, the show’s science fiction elements were relatively subtle in the early seasons. Harry spends as much time investigating the murder of the town’s last ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about education, edtech and higher education. Samples tested for toxic metals at a lab of Columbia University in New York, ...

Breaking news out of eastern Oklahoma! A hole in the sky has opened. Through it, an unidentified turtle-shaped craft has descended. Alerts say that this is first contact. So it goes in the sci-fi ...

Astrophysicist and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson spills on his obsession with aliens and the best and worst ...

Aliens did not visit Earth in the distant past. They didn't build the pyramids or rule ancient Greece from Mount Olympus or teach Mesoamericans how to plant corn. How do I know? Because they didn't do ...