The Star Trek Enterprise crew can relate to the game of golf. It's quite an adventure, especially when our ball lands in “alien territory.” A player typically tries to keep shots in the fairway — the ...

She doesn’t connect, and, when she meets a woman from the town, she speaks like a space alien with no understanding ... textured spaces—the green grass and the sere, sand and woods and sea ...

Because here’s the kicker: humans don’t always talk to tell the truth either. Sometimes we talk to lie. Or stall. Or flirt.

mankind has turned to pillage the planet of Pandora for the valuable mineral, unobtanium. To better understand Pandora and its big, blue, alien inhabitants, the Na'vi, the Resources Development ...

Understanding and Changing “Philosophers,” the young Karl Marx wrote, “have tried to understand history; the point is to change it.” I’ve long thought that famous quotation advances something of a ...

Ancient oceans, which were heavy on iron, interacted differently with light wavelengths, retracting green light into the ...

Fluorescent cave minerals are helping scientists explore how life could survive in harsh places like Europa. Far beneath ...

It thrives in all the same ways as Alien, yet manages to go even further than that seminal project. Planet of the Vampires merges the fear of the unknown with a grave distrust in those closest to ...

If you’re going to set a sci-fi movie on an alien planet, it’s a nice bonus if that planet actually exists. Or, at least, is inspired by one that actually exists. In the new film Ash ...

A study out Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that even in the most optimistic scenarios, grass-fed beef produces no less planet-warming carbon emissions than ...

A study out Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that even in the most optimistic scenarios, grass-fed beef produces no less planet-warming carbon emissions than ...