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We might want to find aliens, but we might not want to meet them.

In 1975, a logger named Travis Walton disappeared outside Snowflake, Arizona. He had last been seen in a vehicle with six coworkers, who...

Betelgeuse is going supernova. We thank you in advance for your help in this small inconvenience.

The science and, of course, the fiction of getting around in space.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is out, deftly finishing the story told in the first two installments of the new trilogy by being...

The Death Star is a remarkable technical achievement and the stupidest, most ruinous idea ever conceived.

Why have a plot when you can just make your characters kiss?

In an alternate reality, you're not even reading this.

How the tracking fobs in the Mandalorian might work.

Social Darwinism is neither social nor Darwinism.

The universe is absolutely teeming with life. So concludes the famous Drake Equation, which looks like this: Dr. Frank Drake presented...

Mars is fascinating, inspiring, and our closest planetary neighbor. And you are not going there.

The science of suspended animation

Mercury is a tiny space rock, a laboratory for proving Einstein right, one of the strangest planets, and one even weirder Roman god.

There are plenty of forces in our universe. Can any of them be The Force?

Call the influenza pandemic of 1918 anything except the Spanish Flu

The science of warp drive. Also, Picard is the best Star Trek captain. It's just science.

The Mandalorian is coming! The Mandalorian is almost here! Get your Disney+! Or, if you’re like me, borrow the password from your...

Aristotle reportedly said that “nature abhors a vacuum.” For people who preferred sitting around and thinking to conducting experiments,...