In a remote stretch of Egyptian desert, a set of huge carved symbols has revived one of humanity’s oldest questions: were our ancestors trying to speak to the cosmos. The newly highlighted tableau, ...

The room we are in is locked. It is windowless and lit from above by a fluorescent bulb. In the hallway outside—two stories beneath the city of London—attendants in dark suits patrol silently, giving ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ever sequenced. A mosaic death mask believed to have belonged to the Maya ...

Cameron revealed what this choice was in a discussion with Michael Biehn on his Just Fooling About podcast, and it started when Biehn, who played Corporal Hicks in the film, asked Cameron if he was ...

The director and actress look back on a partnership that began with "Aliens" and reached new levels of creativity with Weaver's role as a teenager in the "Avatar" sequels.

A federal judge on Monday said the U.S. government denied due process to the Venezuelan men it deported to a prison in El Salvador in March after President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act. The ...

Audio from a recent live air traffic control broadcast in Rhode Island has gone viral. During the conversation, an air traffic controller tells a pilot, “Good luck with the aliens,” after he spots a ...

When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to sci-fi movie depictions, our first contact might not be with a super advanced alien civilization at the height of power. Rather, Ivy League ...

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...