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 ...

The way NPCs open doors in Skyrim has always been a bit silly. When they're crossing load screens they can't open them all ...

Modders have tended to focus on first-person animations, both because it's the more popular view and the easiest to tweak.

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 ...

Is it alien? Is it natural? Those questions have followed the interstellar comet known as 3I/ATLAS since it entered our solar system last year from beyond our own star system. A new study released ...

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 ...

We often feel perplexed by how things work around us, and usually science is waiting with a reasonable explanation. Wondering why the sky changes color at sunset or how a tiny seed turns into a ...