Part of what makes some classics worthy of such a title is the ingenuity and borderline movie magic they employ to tell their story. In the case of "Alien," for example, director Ridley Scott used ...

In today’s complex financial environment, governments need to juggle any number of security threats while keeping the global markets functioning smoothly. From AI attacks to widespread civil war, ...

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.

It's a big universe out there, and while we're all for exploring it, a specific subgenre of science fiction movies has hinted that it might be a bad idea. Alien invasion movies have come in droves ...

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 ...

Clairvoyant Baba Vanga, long believed by devotees to have foreseen events such as 9/11 and the COVID-19 pandemic, predicted alien visitors and the outbreak of World War III for this year. The blind ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

Parliament’s “Mothership Connection,” released 50 years ago this month, was a rococo musical milestone that bridged funk’s hammering, rhythmic pulse and the emerging hip-hop movement in New York and ...

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

Did an alien spacecraft just fly by Earth? That’s the question a lot of people, including Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, are asking right now. A massive interstellar object called 3I/ATLAS which ...