Could humanity ever build a home around another star? This episode examines the challenges of surviving on a planet orbiting ...

The first is a Surface Go 2, a six-year-old machine that just barely squeaked in under the Windows 11 compatibility wire with ...

We may not have found any definitive proof of extraterrestrial life just yet, despite plenty of hope among scientists. But if we were to ever come to an answer in the form of alien biology or ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Human rights are never ensured. The freedoms we hold dear were won—piece by piece—after the catastrophes of the 20th century, when governments accepted, however imperfectly, that state power should be ...

Director Roland Emmerich’s 1996 alien invasion movie Independence Day arrives on Netflix today and I, for one, can’t wait to watch the film for what might be the 50th time. Sure, there are plenty of ...

A scientist at the University of Glasgow has delved into the possible existence of massive hypothetical energy-harvesting structures called Dyson spheres. In a new study, they showed that both stellar ...

WHEN LAURENE POWELL JOBS during a recent interview asked Sam Altman and Sir Jony Ive about the artificial-intelligence “thing” they were working on, both men were coy. But Mr Altman, OpenAI’s boss, ...

The Bank of England was advised to create a plan for the inevitable financial chaos that will result if and when world governments disclose the existence of aliens, according to a report. Former ...

Sundance 2026 is now in full swing and if Midnight strand movie Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant, is any indicator, this year is going to be a fun fest. An expansion from their short, Help, I’m Alien Pregnant, ...

Gregg Araki is back, and it’s like he never left. Though it’s been more than a decade since the last feature from the director of provocative films like “The Doom Generation” and “Kaboom,” his ...

A New Zealand woman gets knocked up by something from another world in a movie that has a sweet, sticky heart underneath its juvenile humor and outrageous prosthetics. “Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant” ...