Alien: Isolation 2 feels incredibly similar to its predecessor, but there's room for surprises in the great outdoors.

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Neil DeGrasse Tyson Neil DeGrasse Tyson would love to be abducted by aliens. But he’s not afraid to poke holes in many of our ...

Astrophysicist and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson spills on his obsession with aliens and the best and worst Hollywood depictions of them.

This article is part of Spielberg Week, Slate’s seven-day celebration of Steven Spielberg. At my press screening of Steven ...

From a distance, Earth looks beautiful. Up close, it feels like a system that no longer understands its own rules. At some point, you stop asking who is right and start asking why everything is so ...

DMT. When the high priest of psychedelics Terence McKenna first took DMT in the 1960s, he noted that his understanding of the ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life.

Right now there’s a bizarre theory going around Twitter, or X, about famous and powerful men all getting the same bruises ...

This second set of remains belonged to what the world would come to know as the Starchild Skull. For nearly a century, this artifact has served as a battlefield between those who believe in ...

Our understanding of the electromagnetic spectrum goes back to Isaac Newton, but astronomers are still finding new ways to ...

Trump shows utter disdain for the Refugee Convention and for the Refugee Act of 1980,” writes former Congresswoman Elizabeth ...