For over 60 years, that three-word exclamation has remained synonymous with The Twilight Zone's heyday. A writer is lucky if they come up with a premise half that good in a lifetime. Damon Knight, on ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

To quote my favorite podcast, My Favorite Murder, it's spoOOOky Halloweeeen! If you're out at the West Hollywood Halloween "parade" (why do they call it a parade? It's just a street fair) and see an ...

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 ...

Like many seasoned skeptics born into Generation X, I grew up watching reruns of “The Twilight Zone,” creator Rod Serling’s stealth vehicle for social commentary disguised as science fiction. Regular ...

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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