With its threats of climate doom and malevolent AI takeovers, the 21st century has all the terror you’ll ever need. But if ...

Fans of the sci-fi and Western genres should acquaint themselves with underrated shows like Outer Range, Killjoys, and ...

The afternoon I saw Tracy Letts’ excellent, itchy Bug on Broadway – an earlier scheduled performance had been canceled – the ...

"Awards like these are a critical component of our incubator program for future missions, which combines government ...

By studying large language models as if they were living things instead of computer programs, scientists are discovering some ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole. Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led ...

Scientists have discovered a mysterious hole on the surface of Mars, and they have no idea what lies inside it. This pit, ...

Scientists have proposed that advanced alien civilizations could build a Dyson sphere around a black hole instead of a star.

It sounds like something from the plot of Interstellar, but this plan to beam precious data back to Earth—before it’s lost ...

It’s the greatest cosmic murder mystery of the year: How did a black hole destroy a star—and what kind of black hole is the culprit? Normally, so-called “gamma ray bursts,” sudden flashes of extremely ...

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 early universe appears to be littered with enormous star-like balls of gas powered by a black hole at their core, a finding that has taken astronomers by surprise and might solve one of the ...