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Forty years on, James Cameron’s transformation of Ridley Scott’s horror classic remains a masterclass in how to make a sequel.
The 1986 science fiction thriller features everything from robotic exoskeletons to terraforming.
Biology allows us to speculatively map out an alien’s energy needs.
The nature of space, time and the evolution of life on Earth mean it’s unlikely extraterrestrial life has visited our home planet.
Aristotle believed the planets revolved around Earth and God could not have created other worlds. Today, scientists scour the surface of Mars for ‘biosignatures’ of microbial life.
Project Hail Mary reminds us how important our world is – and how vital science is to our continued existence on it.
Debunking alien claims matters, but so does telling richer, more compelling stories about how humans shaped their own past.
Observatories could identify gases potentially associated with life in the atmospheres of other worlds.
Humans and bees can both work with mathematics. Could aliens do the same?
The alien question, while fun, generates misinformation and distracts from the science.
What if ‘madness’ is just another way our brains try to explain the world? Bugonia isn’t only absurd; it’s deeply human.
There are parasites on Earth that control the minds of their hosts.
What does this new story have to offer cinema audiences accustomed to characters they already know and onscreen worlds that they have already visited?
It’s the best result yet - but the evidence still isn’t strong enough to convince the scientific community.
Decoding emergent languages in AI can have many behefits.
The belief in aliens is now rising to the extent that politicians, at least in the US, feel they have to respond.
It’s hard to look for something you’ve never seen before – and that might not even exist. But you have to start somewhere.
An excess of infrared light from seven stars are intriguing astronomers.
AI may be destroying civilisations before they get a chance to explore space properly.
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