When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to sci-fi movie depictions, our first contact might not be with a super advanced alien civilization at the height of power. Rather, Ivy League ...

Five miles off Taiwan’s coast, ZTD-05 amphibious vehicles roll out of ships and zip over the water amid a hail of artillery fire. The Chinese soldiers inside have their orders: Seize the beach, or die ...

Alien invasion stories are among the earliest science fiction in the Western canon—they not only explore the strange and unknown but also heighten the stakes by bringing danger inside human ...

Perhaps the beat-'em-up genre's best ever roster of playable characters, let down by an inconsistent campaign that wears out too fast. PC Gamer's got your back Our experienced team dedicates many ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will make its closest approach to Earth on Dec. 19. Originating from outside our solar system, the comet is not a threat to Earth. While not visible to the naked eye, ...

Depending on who you talk to, beat ‘em ups are either repetitive, button-mashy coin munchers or a deceptively simple vehicle for absolute combat mastery. Me? I’m in the latter camp. But how do you get ...

Tom Bowen is a senior editor who loves adventure games and RPGs. He's been playing video games for several decades now and writing about them professionally since 2020. Although he dabbles in news and ...

This story first appeared in Trying!, a thoughtful, funny, wide-ranging daily newsletter featuring essays from the mind of Matt Gross. You can sign up for them here. Those were simple aliens for ...

NASA's highly anticipated comet 3I/ATLAS images have been released, with a space agency official shooting down alien rumors and stressing that the interstellar visitor is a comet. When you purchase ...

With the government reopened, the space agency at last released pictures captured by a fleet of government spacecraft of an object that came from beyond our solar system. By Kenneth Chang Month-old ...

As we await high-resolution images taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb is still not giving up hope that it could be ...