Could the first confirmed signal from an extraterrestrial source be less a hello than a goodbye? Astrophysicist David Kipping ...

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS makes its closest Earth pass early on Dec. 19. Here's what astronomers know about its origin and speed.

The year stood out for its memorable comet activity, with interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS, along with comets C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) ...

Fifty years ago, artist Greg Brown began his Pedestrian Series, bringing memorable characters, from aliens to bank-robbing ...

This was the year that A.I.-generated content passed a kind of audiovisual Turing test, sometimes fooling us against our ...

Years after his Titanic tantrums, the “Avatar” director has “mellowed,” says Sigourney Weaver. He calls it “marinating.” ...

While movies like "Star Wars" and "Alien" are what most people think of with 1970s sci-fi films, there were lesser-known ...

Drawing on Mandrake, Tennyson, Baudrillard and Jonathan Haidt, this essay examines how social media produces parallel selves, erodes attention, and reshapes childhood, ageing and public life—raising ...

Severe foreign aid cuts imposed this year by U.S. President Donald Trump, along with funding reductions from other countries, ...

Our garments offer glimpses of the unconscious; we may also choose them because they feel nothing like us—because they allow ...

A remarkable retrospective shows how Asawa’s art practice emerged from the broken rhythms of daily life, overlapping with ...

On Dec. 19, 3I/ATLAS will be about 1.8 astronomical units away (170 million miles), almost twice as far as the average ...