War of the Worlds' is a science fiction thriller directed by Steven Spielberg. The film shows a massive alien attack on Earth. It focuses on one American ...

Enceladus is covered in ice, but that layer might hide a subsurface ocean. Researchers have long wondered if the salty body ...

Microscopic bits of alien tech on the moon? As scientists searched for intelligent extraterrestrial life — i.e., aliens — they’ve focused on a short list of standard possibilities. In other words, ...

Let's pretend that you want to figure out why alien civilizations have not yet made contact with our little island Earth, a concept called the Fermi paradox. One possibility is that they're out there, ...

If the Milky Way ever hosted a star-faring civilization, its most durable monument may not be a beacon, a ruined spacecraft or a city-size machine. It may be dust. A team of researchers argues that ...

Perhaps no movie was primed to be a video game more than Aliens. A bunch of marines with guns up against hordes of monstrous beasties? That’s a video game, baby. That was true for the first Aliens: ...

The US government has been sharing more information about UFOs. That's fueling excitement over the possibility of the president announcing that humans are not alone. Twenty years later, the former is ...

Follow Pablo down the rabbit hole, well beyond the game — every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday — on his award-winning podcast/TV show. You’ll get a deep-dive "talkumentary" episode, reported by Pablo ...

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 ...

An ICE officer shot a man in Austin, Texas, on Sunday, prompting a crowd of angry demonstrators to gather near the scene, hurl obscenities and clash with authorities. Department of Homeland Security ...