THIS week’s Icon, the actor Bill Paterson, appears to have appeared in almost everything. He has a guid Scots voice, not “och aye the noo”, nor yet inarticulate footballer; not at all elocuted but ...

After FX confirmed Alien: Earth Season 2 last year, the hit science fiction show’s executive producer, Dana Gonzales, gave fans an exciting update regarding the upcoming installment’s progress. In a ...

Solar winds and coronal mass ejections may scatter narrow signals, making them harder for Earth-based telescopes to detect. The SETI Institute uses radio telescopes to search for signs of intelligent ...

Ridley Scott has plenty of notable sci-fi hits under his belt over the last 40 years, but none have stood the test of time as well as Alien. He directed the 1979 classic on a budget of only $11 ...

THEN, in 1979, as intimated earlier, he made a booboo, pooh-poohing an invitation to audition for a role in Hollywood ...

“There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember.” That observation, attributed to American physicist Richard Feynman, captures a tension many people feel when ...

Do little green men exist? Was 'Men In Black' a documentary? Prediction markets are pricing the probability of a U.S. government confirmation of alien life before the year 2027. Find out why traders ...

Why is there such resistance to the acceptance that there is alien life that is much more physically evolved and incomprehensibly more technologically advanced than us? Common sense tells us the ...

One tweet was all it took for Elon Musk to send historians and archaeologists into meltdown. His playful claim that aliens built the pyramids turned into a viral storm that blurred the line between ...