30 years on, "Independence Day" still proves the versatility of the original "The War of the Worlds"

"Independence Day" isn't technically "The War of the Worlds" but it's still one of the most successful adaptations of HG ...

Ethiopia's Danakil Depression looks like another planet and scientists know exactly why

Few places on the planet look less like Earth than the Danakil Depression, a scorched, sunken stretch of northeastern ...

How to invade planet Earth: A sci-fi movie alien's guide to bringing the human race to its knees

From "Independence Day" to "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", movies and TV shows are packed with advice for anyone aspiring ...

We Could Seed Alien Life Elsewhere in the Universe—But We’ll Never Undo the Devastating Consequences, Scientists Caution

Thus far, our search for extraterrestrial life points toward Clarke’s former point, suggesting that our little blue dot is ...

The making of Independence Day at 30: ‘I panicked and raced to set to rewrite’

The makers of the blockbusting sci-fi thriller reveal how they made a hit, why Kevin Spacey was almost involved and what went wrong with the sequel ...

Mysterious yellow crystals on Mars may soon have an explanation

NASA's Curiosity rover found pure sulfur crystals inside a rock after backing over and accidentally crushing it on May 30, ...

70 New Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books Releasing in July

Spend your summer reading cozy romantasy tales, hard sci-fi adventures, ghostly thrillers, and horrifying alt-reality stories ...
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Scientists found life 6 miles under the seafloor - then it pointed to where aliens may be hiding

Scientists have found a hidden biosphere stretching miles beneath Earth’s surface and as deep as 6 miles below the seafloor.
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Mars may have once been filled with seas of magma that made the Red Planet habitable

"If Mars could develop this kind of complex crust without plate tectonics, then maybe the conditions needed for habitability ...