Even when viewers witness the creepy, hyper-polite collective in Apple TV’s Pluribus for the first time, the concept already ...

As Nicolas Roeg’s enigmatic, unclassifiable film – in which David Bowie plays an alien visiting Earth – turns 50, we look back at Tom Milne’s deciphering of it. From our Summer 1976 issue.

They surfaced in the writings of the British author Douglas Adams, whose playful imagination often touched philosophical concerns that resonate differently today. Today, March 11, marks the birth ...

Many people expect the world to end soon. A new study reveals that these apocalyptic narratives consistently predict how ...

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UFO discussions have long been part of the milieu at the Conscious Life Expo, which convenes thousands of New Age spiritual ...

Are you preparing for Civil Services Exam 2026? Here are questions from GS paper 1 for this week with essential points as the fodder for your answers. Do not miss points to ponder and answer in the ...

In the movie Hoppers, scientists “hop” human consciousness into animal-like robots to talk to other species. We asked the ...

Assuming intelligent aliens know how to harvest energy from stars, would humanity be able to spot these high-level structures?

But even if it were to realise that this was largely a matter of etiquette, it would miss the nuances of each opening gambit. Until now. Ostensible meaning: I hope you are well. Actual meaning: None.

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...