From "Independence Day" to "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", movies and TV shows are packed with advice for anyone aspiring ...

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A polarizing Harvard astronomer known for splashy theories about alien visits has been tapped by the White House to lead a ...

Imagine finding hundreds of alligators living happily in Colorado, which is thousands of miles away from any natural swamp.

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Nature harbours a chilling arsenal of predators that don’t just kill their prey — they dissolve it. These eight grisly ...

As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters ...

In the 1982 blockbuster, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, E.T. is lured out of hiding using a trail of Reese's Pieces. But what ...

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself resurfaces: if aliens were to arrive on Earth, would they come to conquer us, ...

When the US Department of Agriculture reported last week that it detected a case of New World screwworm in a Texas calf, ecologist Jeremy Radachowsky was not surprised. Radachowsky, the Mesoamerica ...

Apologies to Maya Angelou, but when a play tells you what it is, believe it the first time. In the opening few minutes of Liz Duffy Adams’ new play, Dear Alien, we meet a misanthropic, morally ...