The Harvard astrophysicist has devoted years—and thousands of interviews—to the idea that mysterious objects streaking ...

Arriving at a disguised Department of Agriculture station in the Nevada desert, the scientific team takes their first ...

There’s often a threshold for how weird something can sound beyond which most people stop taking it seriously. One of the quickest ways to kill a conversation, for example, is to start telling someone ...

Much like its close genre cousin (nephew/niece?) the superhero film, the potential of sci-fi movies exploded in the latter part of the 20th century thanks to technological advances that transformed ...

The existence of alien life is a hotly debated question combining hard math, scientific evidence, complicated conspiracies, mankind’s humility, and a child-like wonder—and it’s gone unsolved for ...

A good science book won't just teach you some interesting facts: it will help you to look at the world around you in a different way. Whether it's an archaeology book that helps you to re-evaluate ...

Almost nobody holds to just one strange idea. By ‘strange’ here, I mean unconventional, unorthodox, contrary to conventional wisdom. (To attenuate some of the hostile judgment implied in those ...