This is not a love story! Author Gemma Amor on the inspiration behind her gripping crime thriller, First Date . . . I remember the first time I read Birdman by Mo Hayder, some time in the early ...

After an inauspicious debut, Paul Giamatti's space pirate has emerged as a villain to be reckoned with on 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.' ...

The Episode marks a major turning point for the series as the plot transitions from academy education to real-life situations, which threaten the lives of the young cadets. Star Trek: Starfleet ...

At the center of the Milky Way, close to the pull of a supermassive black hole, astronomers have found a strange new radio signal that behaves like a slow, steady clock. This object is more than an ...

As we hurtle into yet another new year, I’m still catching up on great records from the end of the last one – or great tapes, ...

Steven Spielberg's 'Disclosure Day' trailer teases alien contact and revives interest in 'sine wave language' theories spreading online.

Space has long been a matter of great curiosity and perplexity for humans. Astronauts ...

With its long wavelength, near-infrared light is hardy enough to survive the limestone surroundings in the cavern: “The ...

January brought a wide range of thoughtful science conversations featuring researchers from the SETI Institute, spanning everything from hands-on planetary defense with citizen scientists to careful ...

In one of the most baffling discoveries of the last decade, scientists have found a clue in a cave to how life might survive in deep space without light.

Part of what makes some classics worthy of such a title is the ingenuity and borderline movie magic they employ to tell their story. In the case of "Alien," for example, director Ridley Scott used ...

There’s no denying the allure of alien artifacts. Science fiction is awash in the material remnants of extraterrestrial civilizations, which surface in everything from the classic books of Arthur C.