How games capture the awe and terror of cosmic isolation

As real astronauts vanish behind the moon, games have long tried to evoke the fragile quiet of drifting through space ...
Scientific American

The Expanse authors James S. A. Corey dive into alien minds in The Faith of Beasts

Award winning duo James S. A. Corey show humanity’s struggle with staggering alien power in their latest installment of the ...

Would you go to the moon? Board an alien spacecraft? What nearly 80 years of polls say about US attitudes on space

Americans’ opinion of space exploration is pretty high.

In These Novels About Aliens, the Truth Is Out There

In these science fiction books, extraterrestrial beings are sympathetic, horrifying and everything in between.

NASA Administrator Says Odds of Finding Alien Life Are ‘Pretty High’

NASA officials have previously spoken of the possibility of extraterrestrial life amid scientific uncertainty while ...
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In space, no one can hear you scream: The film tagline that gave us a whole new setup for horror

When you think of Ridley Scott’s Alien, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? The Xenomorphs, Ripley’s bravado, Kane’s tragic death, or the Nostromo spaceship?

The Alien 3 Assembly Cut is finally on streaming — is it worth watching?

For many fans, the behind-the-scenes strife of Alien 3 is as well-known as its on-screen excess: This is the movie that ...

Lonely Space Movies, Definitively Ranked

From ‘Gravity’ to ‘Spaceman’ to ‘Interstellar’ and beyond, these are our favorite films about humans all alone on the final frontier.
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Exploring isolation in space: A look at Duncan Jones' 'Moon'

A Journey into Solitude In the recent film Project Hail Mary, Ryan Gosling portrays an astronaut who unexpectedly encounters ...
Science Daily

Scientists discover “alien space weather stations” that could reveal habitable planets

Scientists have uncovered a surprising way to study the harsh space weather around young M dwarf stars. Mysterious dips in starlight turned out to be massive rings of plasma swirling in the stars’ ...

New Alien Horror Game Could Cure My Fear of the Genre

I am absolutely terrified of horror games. To be clear, I don’t mind horror and have actually acquiesced to the genre quite ...
MLive

NASA astronaut shares alien-like photo from space, internet loses it

A NASA astronaut recently sent the internet into a frenzy when he posted an alien-looking photo on social media. The photo posted by Don Pettit depicts what appears to be an egg-shaped object with ...