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"Alien Breed if it was a slow burn survival horror game," reads one of the YouTube comments for the trailer of Alien: 8th Passenger. That's as straight forward and perfect a summary as any for this ...

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself ...

Consciousness may arise in systems far different than the biology on Earth we are used to, according to new research.

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It's hard to believe that the distinctly-average-with-a-great-cast B-movie SPECIES would spawn numerous sequels and rip-offs, but I guess there's plenty of mileage in having tentacled aliens taking ...

NASA and the European Space Agency announced Monday that the James Webb Space Telescope has produced the first mid-infrared chemical fingerprint ever obtained from an interstellar object, detecting ...