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Just north of Mars’ equator lies a 45 km (28 mi) wide impact crater known as Jezero Crater. Scientists believe this location ...

A nutrition scientist applies metabolism, biology and food science to one of science fiction's oldest questions.

Discover the astonishing microscopic life thriving beneath Antarctica's icy exterior. A new PBS series reveals the ...

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself resurfaces: if aliens were to arrive on Earth, would they come to conquer us, ...

ON AN August evening in 1995 there was a worldwide broadcast of an 18 minute, grainy black and white film that caused a sensation. According to the report it had been kept secret by the US ...

Do you remember when they said that in space, no one could hear you scream? The tagline for the cult classic Alien movie has, in a way, become a tagline for the whole subgenre of science-fiction, at ...

Aliens could already be broadcasting clear signals across the cosmos while humans remain 'utterly blind' to them, according to astronomer Prof. Jon Willis, who argues that our current search ...

With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination with extraterrestrials.

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