Although the plot of Prometheus might seem confusing, it is relatively easy to understand where Ridley Scott’s 2012 prequel ...

A chemical found in the atmosphere around an exoplanet that leads researchers to believe the planet may harbor life is called ...

UC Riverside scientists identify a new way to detect life in outer space with currently existing telescopes. The method hinges on worlds that look nothing like Earth, and gases rarely considered in ...

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Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know ...

“The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie” surprised me. I expected yet another big screen misuse of the animated ...

The common gallinule has some of the ugliest, alien-looking hatchlings in all of the bird kingdom. They grow up beautiful, but ...

Palestine student was arrested without due process for exercising his right to free speech. He will not be the last.

U.S. tariffs on Canada have put experts at odds over how appropriate the action was, particularly given the unaddressed ...

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The current administration wants to go after protesters using an obscure Cold War-era statute.

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Bong Joon-ho just casually dropped a concept that has cinephiles everywhere simultaneously raising eyebrows and nodding enthusiastically: an Alien musical. The ...