Ridley Scott's inimitable 1979 sci-fi thriller, Alien, expertly ratchets up the tension by not having the titular alien show up on screen until roughly an hour into the film. Following in Scott's ...

High-energy particles zipping through the cosmos are harmful to life on Earth, but scientists think it could be food for potential alien life elsewhere. Saturn's moon Enceladus (shown here in a 2006 ...

WASHINGTON — Iran’s exiled crown prince and opposition leader Reza Pahlavi said the current wave of nationwide protests rocking the Islamic Republic would not be happening without President Trump — ...

A team of astronomers found no radio signals from the comet that would suggest it is an extraterrestrial spaceship. The comet was confirmed in July 2025 as the third known object to enter our solar ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the U.S. learned of Iranian plans to execute 800 people Wednesday, which didn’t happen. She didn’t say how the U.S. had learned about the planned ...

As anti-regime protests spread across Iran for a 12th straight day, the Islamic Republic has reportedly turned to foreign militias for support, with two independent sources confirming that roughly 850 ...

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who made Iran an Islamic republic in 1979, famously said that revolution was "not about the price of watermelons." He held economics in contempt as the science of feeding ...

Iran’s nationwide unrest entered its thirteenth day Friday, as authorities imposed a sweeping internet blackout that largely cut the country off from the outside world and escalated threats of harsh ...

On Thursday night, 35-year-old Sara took to the streets of Tehran for the first time in three years to protest against the Islamic Republic. In late 2022, she’d been part of an uprising against ...

Ms. Dagres is a senior fellow at the Washington Institute. A lone man crouched in the middle of a Tehran street, a black jacket pulled over his head, blocking advancing Iranian security forces. The ...

Joe Walsh is a senior editor for digital politics at CBS News. Joe previously covered breaking news for Forbes and local news in Boston. Iran has faced intense nationwide protests for more than two ...

Large marches against the government occurred despite an internet blackout and threats of a severe crackdown. By Farnaz Fassihi Farnaz Fassihi has covered Iran for three decades, having lived in the ...