How do you study the invisible?” This was the challenge the scientists at the ESA faced during the early days of December ...

For more than a century, popular culture has trained us to picture extraterrestrials as bug-eyed, bipedal “little green men” ...

There's the invasion by a warlike species, there's the highly evolved species trying to communicate with our primitive ...

To find the poetry in AI, I had to be quiet and listen as it whispered, “you will know me by my name.” The name? That was the moment for me … the name is “artificial.” In a moment of rare humility, AI ...

Artificial Intelligence has learned the art of flattery. The result is tragic: we have taught machines to keep us stupid, ...

As this celestial nomad, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, makes its closest approach to Earth this week — reaching its minimum distance at 1 ...

James Cameron’s high-tech magnum opus Avatar is now a trilogy. The sequels The Way of Water and Fire and Ash have turned the ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, we go from Christmas Eve to New Year’s Day, with plenty of ...

Life can be scary, and a lot of times we push certain fears aside just to get through the day. But when those fears show up ...

The year ahead promises new books from George Saunders, Colson Whitehead, Ann Patchett, Ruth Ozeki, Jesmyn Ward and more ...

The villain is the character that the people remember,” said actor Udo Kier, an icon of world cinema who’s carved out his own ...