The curious minds at What If explore the extraordinary consequences if you mated with an alien and had hybrid offspring, examining the biological, social, and cultural implications.

Researchers Discovered An “Alien Plant” In A 47-Million-Year-Old Fossil. They Say It’s Unlike Any Plant Alive Today. Watch the moment this plane hits a bridge just after takeoff ...

The events of High on Life start at the outbreak of alien invasion on a seemingly normal day in sleepy suburbia. Your parents ...

Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

From its earliest days, Star Trek was never just about starships and strange new worlds. Beneath the optimism of a better future and adventure was a recurring anxiety about power-specifically, what ...

Directors Harrison Fishman and Dylan Redford discuss their HBO docuseries exploring neighbor disputes - a dizzying, sometimes ...

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Not only was Star Trek: The Original Series groundbreaking for television, it also featured sci-fi quotes that have stood the ...

I n February 2016, after exchanging email pleasantries with the left-wing public intellectual Noam Chomsky and extending an invitation to his private island, Jeffrey Epstein recommended an article.

The more divided we become, the more absurd it all starts to look. Not because the problems aren’t real — they are — but ...

This isn’t a new problem. It’s an old one we’ve dressed up with better technology.

Despite being a high point for the franchise as a whole, "Star Trek: The Next Generation" was not without its fair share of ...