The British military actively tried to obtain extraterrestrial technology in the 1990s, intelligence officers believing the ...

During its original network run in the 1960s, Star Trek was famously saved from cancellation twice by fan letter-writing ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has praised his troops fighting abroad as forging an “invincible alliance” with Russia in a ...

Kim sent the troops to Russia under the mutual defence treaty both countries signed in 2024, the Central Military Commission ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hailed troops fighting in an "alien land" in a New Year message to soldiers, state media reported Thursday, in which he underscored Pyongyang's alliance with Russia.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has praised his troops fighting abroad as forging an "invincible alliance" with Russia in a ...

Fire and Ash" director reflects on the impact of a key collaborator who passed away before he could see the full fruition of ...

By the end of 2025, several notable sci-fi TV series have either formally ended or quietly fallen off the renewal slate. Some ...

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In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...

Conspiracy theories have raged about 3I/ATLAS being an unnatural object. But the alien question, while fun, generates misinformation and distracts from the science. When you purchase through links on ...