Flying discs, metallic orbs, and a mysterious cylinder tumbling past the Apollo spacecraft. Those are just a few of the ...

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And when people are convinced that they know a secret, world-shaking truth, they are willing to wait a long time for ...

Just over 40 years ago, in his novel Contact, astronomer Carl Sagan imagined what it would be like to detect radio signals beamed from other intelligent lifeforms in the galaxy. In the story, these ...

Behind the acid blood and jump scares of the Alien franchise is an even more insidious horror: a single employer with ...

Behind the acid blood and jump scares of the Alien franchise is an even more insidious horror: a single employer with unchecked power. How... This article first appeared in the Planet Money newsletter ...