Image: Conceptual illustration of a possible signal from an alien civilization reaching Earth.Detecting such signals — or their physical traces — requires advanced instruments, AI-driven analysis, and ...

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Some of the best science fiction TV shows ever premiered in the 1990s, and they are still worth watching today.

“If history is any guide, then perhaps the first signatures of extraterrestrial intelligence will too be highly atypical, ‘loud’ examples of their broader class.” In that line from The Eschatian ...

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...

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This film by Craig Baldwin is seemingly a tribute to the type of stream of consciousness documentaries that Winston Wheeler Dixon was known for making in the late 1970's. A constant stream of vaguely ...

The universe is unfathomably vast, and for the astronomers trying to understand it, that means having to gather a commensurately mind-boggling amount of data. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Here's a use of AI that appears to do more good than harm. A pair of astronomers at the European Space Agency (ESA) developed a neural network that searches through space images for anomalies. The ...

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 ...