You could walk up behind them in chain mail, and they wouldn't know. Never mind following someone or listening for footsteps.

Independence Day took over the summer of 1996 like the alien invasion it inflicted onto big screens around the world, ushering in a new era of suped-up, cinematic spectacle. But Will Smith, Jeff ...

This article contains spoilers for the film Disclosure Day. As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters of the Third ...

SETI scientists searched the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS for radio signals that could indicate extraterrestrial technology but found nothing beyond human-made interference. Even so, the ...

Earlier this month, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott told residents to brace themselves for an “extraordinarily challenging summer.” A flesh-eating parasite that did hundreds of millions of dollars of damage ...

Hackers breached Brazil’s national emergency alert system overnight on June 19 and 20, sending fake notifications to residents across at least seven cities, with some alerts warning of an imminent ...

A parasitic worm uses static electricity to launch itself onto flying insects, a mechanism uncovered by physicists and biologists at Emory and Berkeley. By generating opposite charges, the worm and ...

I remember the day I got obsessed with a tiny, see-through worm. I was in a classroom at Northeastern University, where I worked at the time, giving a science-communication workshop to a group of ...