The Fourth of July is usually associated with barbecues and fireworks, but there’s also some perfect movie-watching options to celebrate the holiday. The movie celebrates its 30th anniversary this ...

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The filmmakers swap stories about working with Tim Burton on one of the 1990s’ wackiest alien-invasion films.To celebrate the ...

Scientists propose a simple but powerful new method for detecting traces of alien biology, whether on Jupiter's icy moons, in ...

Steven Spielberg has spent most of his career grappling with the great beyond, whether it be luminous aliens greeting us in song and touch, hungry dinosaurs born of human hubris, cosmic fury springing ...

Project Hail Mary has been hailed as the "first masterpiece of 2026", in part thanks to its gripping storyline and Ryan Gosling's performance. Besides Gosling, the other star of the movie was his ...

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For decades, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been guided by one hopeful assumption: somewhere in the galaxy, another civilization may be trying to reach us. Radio telescopes have ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. In February 1896, when the germ theory of disease was still fairly ...

The most likely first sign of alien intelligence may not be a greeting — but a collapse. According to the “escaton hypothesis,” the civilizations we detect first could be the loudest ones, not the ...

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