For most people, the idea of alien contact has been shaped less by astronomy than by cinema. Films have taught us to expect intention: visitors who arrive either with open hands, as in E.T., or with ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reobserved interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on 30 November with its Wide Field Camera 3 instrument. At the time, the comet was about 286 million kilometers from Earth.

Two major alien-life announcements in 2025 generated enormous excitement, but most astrobiologists remained unconvinced. Only 6.6% of surveyed experts thought possible biological molecules on K2-18b ...

Babou Ceesay plays Morrow, a new type of character called a Cyborg introduced to the franchise in Alien: Earth One of the best shows of 2025 was Alien: Earth, Noah Hawley's sci-fi horror series set in ...

Ridley Scott has plenty of notable sci-fi hits under his belt over the last 40 years, but none have stood the test of time as well as Alien. He directed the 1979 classic on a budget of only $11 ...

Two astronauts make a strange discovery out in the silent vacuum of space. Should you shut down your PC every night? Here's what it actually does to your computer When someone talks down to you, use ...