The Etosha Pan in northern Namibia, the largest salt flat in the country, looks otherworldly in this satellite photo.

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Filming for Season 2 of FX‘s hit sci-fi series, Alien: Earth, has officially begun in London as fans get their first look at the behind-the-scenes action. The first look teases the latest chapter of ...

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Seven Rasmussen, an astrobiologist and author of the new book Cloudy with a Chance of Starships, gives readers a tour of the astonishing science behind modern searches for alien life We’ve been ...

NASA is ready to explore the cosmos in a whole new way, thanks to its next-generation Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Scientists and engineers have spent some twenty years designing and building ...

Last May, the Trump administration launched a website designed to track down and arrest undocumented migrants across the United States. Playing on the ambiguity of the term ‘aliens’, the online ...