The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to sci-fi movie depictions, our first contact might not be with a super advanced alien civilization at the height of power. Rather, Ivy League ...

Cameron revealed what this choice was in a discussion with Michael Biehn on his Just Fooling About podcast, and it started when Biehn, who played Corporal Hicks in the film, asked Cameron if he was ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ended a long-standing recommendation that all newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine, leaving it instead to parents, in consultation with a healthcare ...

NASA's alien-hunting Europa Clipper spacecraft took seven hours of ultraviolet observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS while both objects zoom toward Jupiter. When you purchase through links on ...

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office now asks everyone they encounter for their place of birth. Sheriff Grady Judd stated the policy is a response to new state immigration laws and is intended to avoid ...

Russia’s demographic decline, turbocharged by the war in Ukraine, has given birth to “one of the world’s most extreme natalism campaigns – and one of the weirdest”, said The Atlantic. The country’s ...

A strange metallic monolith was discovered deep in the Utah desert, and very few people knew where it was. Using flight data, terrain clues, and instinct, the location was quietly tracked down. The ...

The exact date of Jesus's birth is unknown, though it is estimated to have been in the spring between 6 and 4 B.C. Christians began celebrating Christmas on December 25 in the 4th century, possibly to ...

New discoveries and fresh looks at familiar worlds show how far exoplanet science has come — and how much remains unknown. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Steven Spielberg is back with a new kind of close encounter. The first trailer for the legendary director's next movie "Disclosure Day," which until now did not have an official title, has debuted ...