The science-fiction film Project Hail Mary sees Ryan Gosling go to space in a state of suspended animation. But does the science suggest that’s possible?

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A small group of distant worlds may hold the clues to life beyond Earth. Astronomers searching for life beyond Earth have narrowed down the most promising places to look. Out of more than 6,000 known ...

Steven Spielberg is finally giving fans the massive The X-Files-style conspiracy thriller they have waited decades for.

Debunking alien claims matters, but so does telling richer, more compelling stories about how humans shaped their own past.

Stephen Colbert trolls Barack Obama over viral aliens interview The latest trailer for Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day, ...

Roger Jackson — best known for being the voice of one of the genre’s most iconic villains, Scream’s Ghostface — will be ...

UFO discussions have long been part of the milieu at the Conscious Life Expo, which convenes thousands of New Age spiritual seekers in Los Angeles each year. But in the conference’s 24th year, ...

The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we dive into fascinating ideas from around the universe. You can sign up for Lost in Space-Time here. Modern physics ...

Over hundreds of thousands of years, humans somehow evolved a type of intelligence found nowhere else in the animal kingdom, at least on Earth. According to the most famous theory describing the ...

In the new film from Susanne Brandstaetter, world premiering at Rotterdam, a "Being" is searching for clues for mankind’s extinction: "It's essential to provoke audiences to think more about this." By ...

When we imagine alien life, we picture monsters, insects, or tentacles—but what if the most realistic aliens are human-like? Evolution tends to solve the same problems with similar designs, and ...