Even though the Victorian era was, relatively speaking, not that long ago, looking at pictures or old items from it can feel ...

In July, researchers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System survey telescope in Chile made an exceedingly rare discovery: a mysterious object passing through the solar ...

Resolve to read more books in 2026—and start right here with io9’s first list of the year rounding up all the new sci-fi, ...

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 director and actress look back on a partnership that began with "Aliens" and reached new levels of creativity with Weaver's role as a teenager in the "Avatar" sequels.

A federal judge on Monday said the U.S. government denied due process to the Venezuelan men it deported to a prison in El Salvador in March after President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act. The ...

Audio from a recent live air traffic control broadcast in Rhode Island has gone viral. During the conversation, an air traffic controller tells a pilot, “Good luck with the aliens,” after he spots a ...

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 ...

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

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 ...