Ridley Scott's inimitable 1979 sci-fi thriller, Alien, expertly ratchets up the tension by not having the titular alien show up on screen until roughly an hour into the film. Following in Scott's ...

It was once described by the severed head of Ian Holm as "the perfect organism," and that certainly followed through in the appearance of Ridley Scott's "Alien." A biomechanical-like monster that has ...

Scarlett Howard currently has funding from the Australian Research Council and the Hermon Slade Foundation. Adrian Dyer receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Alexander von ...

Humans have always been fascinated with space. We frequently question whether we are alone in the universe. If not, what does intelligent life look like? And how would aliens communicate? How could ...

In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible sign of life, known as a potential biosignature, on Mars. The Perseverance rover, which has been exploring a dried-up lakebed for years, found ...

Carole Haswell receives funding from STFC. We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of these is whether Earth is the ...

Alien, Apocalypse Now, and All That Jazz are all among the absolute greatest movies from 1979 that are now widely considered ...

In case you've faced some hurdles solving the clue, Contradictory statement regarding the likelihood of alien life existing, we've got the answer for you. Crossword puzzles offer a fantastic ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

They’ve got their 3Is on the prize. The highly anticipated data 3I/ATLAS’ Earth tour last month is in. A targeted scan of 3I/ATLAS for signs of radio transmitting tech has come up empty — but Harvard ...

Michel Brahic tells us that the formation of the last universal common ancestor from a soup of chemicals was “an extremely unlikely event, with a probability estimated at less than 1 in a billion” (6 ...