From Project Hail Mary to Independence Day, Alien to Arrival, these alien movies are much better than Disclosure Day.

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly ...

Are we alone in the universe? Consider mysterious "extraterrestrial" radio signals. Unexplained gases on other planets.

These five sci-fi icons overcame the most impossible challenges in their journey, leaving a lasting thematic legacy on the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Festinger and several of his colleagues had infiltrated the Seekers, a small ...

Alien virtuosos Angine de Poitrine return with the timely follow-up to 2024’s hype-driving Vol I. With microtonal meditations on hotdogs, the extraterrestrial duo – who may or may not dwell in Quebec ...

Cue the curiosity surrounding extraterrestrial life. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has registered two new federal domains, including Alien.gov and Aliens.gov, though the websites aren't ...

In the movie Hoppers, scientists “hop” human consciousness into animal-like robots to talk to other species. We asked the experts their thoughts on how conceivable the plot is. Some scientists believe ...

The bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like? Paleoanthropologists study millions of years of fossil evidence to try and ...

Will artificial intelligence ever be able to reason, learn, and solve problems at levels comparable to humans? Experts at the University of California San Diego believe the answer is yes—and that such ...

Will artificial intelligence ever be able to reason, learn and solve problems at levels comparable to humans? Four experts at the University of California San Diego believe the answer is yes – and ...

Four cross-disciplinary faculty at UC San Diego believe the answer is yes Does AI already have human-level intelligence? Four UC San Diego faculty suggest the machine intelligence foreshadowed by Alan ...