This study ranks Florida among the top states for alien abduction reports, where you have 1 in 1,102 odds of an extraterrestrial beaming you up.

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John Carpenter proved he could do far more than horror classics in this formulaic yet compelling 1984 film starring Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen.

When a company that promises it can upload human consciousness into a cloud system is hiring, she'll take any job they've got on offer. Little does she expect it'll be a life-changing journey. Anima ...

Researchers say elongated alien-like skulls found in ancient graves were shaped in infancy and carried different meanings across cultures.

The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we dive into fascinating ideas from around the universe. You can sign up for Lost in Space-Time here. Modern physics ...

Sometimes, a person meets a special animal after months, even years, of searching, but other times, the animal decides who they're going home with. When it comes to cats, this phenomenon is called the ...

Over hundreds of thousands of years, humans somehow evolved a type of intelligence found nowhere else in the animal kingdom, at least on Earth. According to the most famous theory describing the ...

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When we imagine alien life, we picture monsters, insects, or tentacles—but what if the most realistic aliens are human-like? Evolution tends to solve the same problems with similar designs, and ...

"If you fail this mission, you will never come home.?" Chroma has revealed the official trailer for an indie sci-fi film titled The Infinite Husk, ready for release starting in February in a few ...