If the truth is out there, the White House has a new scientific advisory group working on finding it. Called the UAP Science ...

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The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist having a Eureka moment, realising in a single dramatic instant that Earth is ...

Earth plants could thrive under the light of an alien sun, according to a recent experiment. A team of astrobiologists planted garden cress seeds and cultured dishes of photosynthetic bacteria under ...

Though the series’ protagonist is an alien, the show’s science fiction elements were relatively subtle in the early seasons. Harry spends as much time investigating the murder of the town’s last ...

On May 22, 2026, the Pentagon released a second batch of previously classified photos and videos showing what appear to be unexplained flying objects. These file dumps were the culmination of a ...

From microscopic organisms living on frozen worlds to bizarre creatures drifting through alien skies, this journey explores ...

Nicola Griffith and Stephel Pagel, eds. Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction. Overlook Press (212-965-8407), 1998. 375 pp. $26.95 hc. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick begins her Epistemology of the Closet ...

We named him Squirt – not because he was the smallest of the 16 cuttlefish in the pool, but because anyone with the audacity to scoop him into a separate tank to study him was likely to get soaked.

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