With a new 'Animorphs' series in the works, let's look back at why LGBTQ+ audiences were drawn to the original books & TV show.

If the government confirms nonhuman intelligence, psychological research offers clues about the range of ways humans might ...

Interview with historian Gao Yunxiang on Afro-Asian solidarity, trans-Pacific lives, gender, race, and the activists who connected China and Black America.

The best new books to read in April, from UFOs to Muriel Spark - BOOKS OF THE MONTH: Martin Chilton shares his reading ...

For the first time, more men than women are "marrying up" the education ladder, toppling a millennia-old tradition, an ...

Starseeds say they’re not from this planet. Online, they’re sharing mythologies and rituals that, for some, are taking on the ...

Solar winds and coronal mass ejections may scatter narrow signals, making them harder for Earth-based telescopes to detect. The SETI Institute uses radio telescopes to search for signs of intelligent ...

E.T. could be phoning home — but we’re not hearing the call. A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal argues that “space weather” could be distorting incoming transmissions from ...

In 1979, Ridley Scott took a trip into a nightmarish region of space (fuelled by the real nightmares of H.R. Giger) and returned with a petrified crew and an extra passenger they'd rather not have ...

It is often suggested that this may have already happened: alien technosignatures may have reached Earth during the past six decades but have gone unnoticed. If that is true, it suggests that more ...

Former US President Barack Obama said he’s seen no evidence that aliens have made contact with Earth, clarifying his position on extraterrestrials after comments he made in a podcast went viral. Obama ...

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...