Artificial intelligence is starting to sit in for human subjects in classic economics games, from financial markets to public ...

Extreme isolation is something our greatest explorers have faced in varying degrees. Now, a team of six NASA recruits have begun a year-long mission on the desolate side of a barren Hawaiian volcano ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

The original design choice behind Star Trek's most famous half-Vulcan would have made for a very different vibe.

AN abandoned RAF site dubbed Britain’s ‘Area 51’ is a magnet for UFO hunters, urban explorers and conspiracy theorists who ...

A video shown on Capitol Hill on September 9 reportedly shows an American hellfire missile attacking and simply bouncing off a UAP (the military term for a UFO). When videos like this come out, ...

A humanoid robot powered by ChatGPT fired a BB gun at a human after a simple prompt change, exposing cracks in AI safety and ...

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...

The order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is a win for Mr. Newsom, a Democrat, who has vigorously ...

The Animated Series technically made it canon that a certain alien Trek species makes the exact same roaring sound as ...

Readers Edition. This is the (nearly) annual tradition of you, RPS readers, telling us where we went wrong in our annual ...

Eschewing some of the genre's most out-there tropes and concepts, sci-fi movies like Children of Men and Arrival instead opt ...