Ridley Scott's inimitable 1979 sci-fi thriller, Alien, expertly ratchets up the tension by not having the titular alien show up on screen until roughly an hour into the film. Following in Scott's ...

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High-energy particles zipping through the cosmos are harmful to life on Earth, but scientists think it could be food for potential alien life elsewhere. Saturn's moon Enceladus (shown here in a 2006 ...

In July, researchers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System survey telescope in Chile made an exceedingly rare discovery: a mysterious object passing through the solar ...

They’ve got their 3Is on the prize. The highly anticipated data 3I/ATLAS’ Earth tour last month is in. A targeted scan of 3I/ATLAS for signs of radio transmitting tech has come up empty — but Harvard ...

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Among the 25 films selected by the Library of Congress to be preserved for future generations are "The Big Chill," Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel," the Civil War drama "Glory," and John ...

Subcontinental literary history reveals two distinct traditions that conducted a centuries-long, sophisticated dialogue rather than a mere clash.