Musk’s xAI bought the long-dormant power plant in Southaven last year and plans to spend more than $20 billion in the area, some of it on a new data center in the city. It was the largest private ...

If you've been following exoplanet research over the last couple of years, you've definitely heard of K2-18b. Located 124 ...

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Bugatti's Bolide steals the show with menacing aero and thunderous power. This track-only hypercar dominates every second.

The fight between Donald Trump and Barack Obama has finally reached the point where even aliens have been drafted into the culture war—and Donald Trump is treating the whole thing like a felony case.

The president refused to be pinned down on the ET question, instead turning it into an attack on former President Barack ...

A financial crisis could be triggered by an announcement that aliens exist, according to Helen McCaw, a former policy expert of the Bank of England. McCaw told The Times of London that politicians and ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

James Cameron, who directed 1986’s Aliens, has a lot of feedback for the sequel Alien 3. During a recent appearance on the “Just Foolin About With Michael Biehn” podcast, Cameron, 71, was asked about ...

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

‘Predator: Badlands’ contains several references to the ‘Alien’ franchise, but how deep does the connection go, and what does it mean for future sewu Alien and Predator aren’t nearly as intertwined as ...

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...