During the 1960s, the United States prepared to fend off nuclear missile attacks from the Soviet Union—unaware that the gravest threat was not looming across the globe, but outside of Earth’s ...

Project Orion Battleship was a Cold War concept for a giant nuclear pulse spacecraft built to carry scientists, military personnel, landing craft, and an arsenal of nuclear weapons across the solar ...

These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial life.

With his new film Disclosure Day, filmmaker Steven Spielberg is returning to the subject that helped make him one of the most successful directors in the world: extraterrestrials (or ETs). But his ...

Dylan Scott covers health for Vox, guiding readers through the emerging opportunities and challenges in improving our health. He has reported on health policy for more than 10 years, writing for ...

Before his passing in 2018, renowned physicist Stephen Hawking issued a series of chilling warnings about the existential threats facing humanity. His concerns ranged from the rapid advancement of ...

Every film on this list speaks to who we are, what we strive to be, and where we fall short.

President Donald Trump says he’s called off new military strikes on Iran hours after threatening to escalate the 3-month-old war ...

President Donald Trump said Thursday he has called off new military strikes on Iran, hours after threatening to escalate the war. Trump had threatened major strikes on Iran and to seize control of its ...

The president faced intense pushback over his decision to name Bill Pulte, head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, as acting director.

The mind-body dualism is a fascinating concept, whether taken in the context or Descartes’ version which argues the two as separate, respectively physical and intangible entities, or modern version of ...

Disclosure Day sees Steven Spielberg return to a well-worn subject: extraterrestrials and the wonder they inspire. But unlike many of his previous efforts in this, um, space, Disclosure Day is bluntly ...