A hacker who breached Brazil's national emergency alert system and pushed fake 'alien attack' warnings to millions of phones ...

There’s only one problem: The supposed panic was so tiny as to be practically immeasurable on the night of the broadcast. Despite repeated assertions to the contrary in the PBS and NPR programs, ...

H.G. Wells’ novel, The War of the Worlds, was first published in 1898. It tells the story of a Martian invasion of Earth. The book is a classic in science fiction and has had a major influence on the ...

After first being released in the pages of Pearson's Magazine and Cosmopolitan in 1897 as a serial and the following year as a novel, H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds has been among the works of ...

As the far right fulminates about who ‘belongs’ in Britain, let’s remember Fritz Lustig, who arrived here in 1939, just months before war broke out. Initially jailed as an ‘enemy alien’, he played a v ...

The '70s ushered in a huge sci-fi renaissance on TV, making the genre more popular than ever, thanks in part to "Battlestar ...

Tuesday marks 70 years since a tragic mid-air plane collision over the Grand Canyon claimed the lives of over 100 people. Arizona’s forests and State Trust lands are under tighter restrictions as ...

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There are many recurring fears throughout the course of human history. The levels of public concern about wars and pandemics over the past decade illustrates these kinds of legitimate worries, and ...

When UK mockumentary Alternative 3 tried to spook viewers that scientists were vanishing as part of a sinister space plot it succeeded. Today, the resulting conspiracy theory has even seen Trump’s gov ...

Eight years ago, The Office star John Krasinski showed a very different side of his talents by jumping behind the camera to direct the horror hit, A Quiet Place. The post-apocalyptic feature, ...