When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to sci-fi movie depictions, our first contact might not be with a super advanced alien civilization at the height of power. Rather, Ivy League ...

The Xenomorph from the Alien film franchise is one of the coolest, most nefarious movie monsters ever hatched, with its acid blood, mouths-within-mouths, and diabolical claws. It pretty much ...

NASA's alien-hunting Europa Clipper spacecraft took seven hours of ultraviolet observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS while both objects zoom toward Jupiter. When you purchase through links on ...

A new flu strain that has been dominating cold and flu season overseas is on the rise in the United States. The mutated strain, known as subclade K, originates from the most common flu-causing virus, ...

A mysterious metal shard captured the imagination of the American public, because it was supposedly from a 1947 UFO that crashed on Earth. The sample seemed to have an unprecedented material structure ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...