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Consciousness could be a fundamental part of reality, like gravity or matter, according to this controversial theory.

In her new book "First Contact," journalist Becky Ferreira explores the scientific search for alien life, our cultural obsessions with extraterrestrials and why the truth may be more human than we ...

Fiction, by its very definition, isn't real. A character can have an entire lifetime of backstory, the politics and geography of their made-up homeworld a matter of record, but none of it would exist ...

Dead Space, along with so much sci-fi horror, probably wouldn't exist without Alien. Ridley Scott set the bar high, and for close to 50 years the xenomorph's first outing has informed what people want ...

For as long as humans have looked up at the night sky, we've wondered who, or what, might be looking back. From ancient myths about gods descending from the heavens to 20th-century UFO sightings and ...