It's one of the biggest unanswered questions in science: are there aliens out there, and if so, where are they hiding? Now, a discovery by NASA has raised the tantalising possibility that we're not ...

The Dyson Sphere is a theoretical megastructure proposed to surround a star and capture its full energy output. While some designs imagine a solid shell, most scientific analyses consider a “swarm” of ...

A financial crisis could be triggered by an announcement that aliens exist, according to Helen McCaw, a former policy expert of the Bank of England. McCaw told The Times of London that politicians and ...

It’s called the High Five — and it’s one of the tallest highway interchanges in the world. With five stacked levels, 700 columns, and 37 bridges, this Dallas megastructure isn’t just big. It’s absurd.

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.

‘Predator: Badlands’ contains several references to the ‘Alien’ franchise, but how deep does the connection go, and what does it mean for future sewu Alien and Predator aren’t nearly as intertwined as ...

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

Even though it was obviously a dude in a suit, the Xenomorph in the first Alien film is downright terrifying. Due in part to its limited screentime, creating an atmosphere full of tension, and its ...

One night in 1957, Antônio Vilas Boas was plowing his field in rural Brazil when he saw mysterious red lights flying through the sky. What he presumed was a spacecraft landed in a nearby field.

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The Alien franchise has always focused on just one titular alien — the Xenomorph. Yes, over the years, we got extrapolations of the Xenomorph, like the Queen, and the facehuggers. Yet they all still ...