The Dark Forest theory is one proposed solution to the famed Fermi Paradox, which has bewitched astronomers for more than half a century. To put it concisely, the paradox asks if the cosmos is nearly ...

For decades, the Soviet leadership simply denied everything. They claimed unidentified aerial objects were just capitalist lies meant to stir up panic. But the Kremlin was saying one thing and doing ...

We have no good reason to believe that aliens have ever contacted Earth. Sure, there are conspiracy theories, and some rather strange reports about harm to cattle, but nothing credible. Physicist ...

Oksana Akinshina as Tatyana Klimova and director Egor Abramenko on the set of Russian sci-fi horror Sputnik Credit: Image Courtesy of IFC Midnight Egor Abramenko can remember exactly when he fell in ...