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Extra-Terrestrial Bodies

March 25, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Producer Jonathan Mitchell goes behind the scenes with Phil Tippet, who designs alien creatures for Hollywood filmmakers.

Joe Davis’s Universe

March 25, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Sci-Fi Genome

March 25, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

The Museum of Humans

March 24, 2018Arts, Culture & Media
A screen shot from Abel Méndez's lab note titled "Strange Signals from the Nearby Red Dwarf Star Ross 128."

Astronomers try to decipher ‘peculiar signals’ from nearby star Ross 128

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A sign marking the base of the Uritorco hill is seen in the Argentine city of Capilla del Monte, in Cordoba province, December 20, 2012. The mountain is popular among UFO spotters in Argentina.

The rise and fall of Argentina’s real-life X-Files unit

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They may have tried, but the truth just wasn’t out there.

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