Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about modern anxieties than the past itself?

Some of the best science fiction TV shows ever premiered in the 1990s, and they are still worth watching today.

Author Andy Weir and screenwriter Drew Goddard talk about turning the book into a cinematic experience.

Oxygen has been the most important gas in our search for life among the cosmos thus far. On Earth, we have it in abundance ...

As a researcher, I still remember the discomfort I felt every time I had to sacrifice laboratory animals for an experiment. For decades, animals like mice, rats and pigs have been essential tools in ...

This frames the plot of “The Evitable Conflict,” a short story from “I, Robot,” Isaac Asimov’s seminal collection published in 1950. In the background of the nuclear age, technology was quietly ...

The future of the Alien franchise might have taken a very different turn if one filmmaker had gotten his way. A new rumor suggests that Fede Álvarez originally had a major idea for the sequel to Alien ...

In a series of experiments at Johns Hopkins University, Lily Zhao fired tiny samples of a microorganism with a room-sized gas ...

Beginning in the 1970s, U.S. government intelligence agencies investigated the existence of 'remote viewing.' Those files are now declassified.

"Project Hail Mary" stars Ryan Gosling as Dr. Ryland Grace, a teacher-turned-hero. Directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller blend humor and science in this sci-fi. The film, based on Andy Weir's novel, ...

SETI researchers may have missed alien signals due to a cosmic phenomenon that distorts narrowband radio waves, new research says.

Researchers at OpenAI and Ginkgo Bioworks showed that an AI model working with an autonomous lab can design and iterate real ...