This file argues that the biggest obstacle in the alien debate may no longer be the total lack of evidence, but the impossible standard for what counts as final proof. From the Wow! signal to Martian ...

The legendary director on why he thinks aliens are real, and why he makes movies about things that scare him. Hosted by Rachel Abrams The legendary director on why he thinks aliens are real, and why ...

Like many great directors, Steven Spielberg has something of an allergy to sequels. Among his 35 features, the moviemaker has made a lone direct sequel—1997’s “The Lost World: Jurassic Park”—and ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

Since summer 1947, aliens have been a topic of conversation. If you had told me a few years ago the federal government would be dumping declassified UFO files onto a public website, I would have ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The group leading the charge in the search for extraterrestrial life has given the all clear: An interstellar comet looks to be completely natural and free of any alien tech.

When Marie Darmody completed her fashion degree in NCAD in 1988, she decided, like many other Irish graduates at the time, to move abroad, in her case to Milan, a decision that was to change the ...

It may seem like we are on the verge of discovering alien life. In 2025, a press release stated that we have the “strongest hints yet” of extraterrestrial life on the exoplanet K2-18b. And when ...

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