Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

Our guide on how the Star Trek timeline fits together ...

As the Sun slowly grows brighter over billions of years, our planet will eventually become uninhabitable and may one day be consumed.

Science fiction often shows aliens with human features like eyes, limbs, and faces. But science has a reason for questioning this idea. Through convergent evolution, similar environments and physical ...

The Alien universe has grown since our last log in 2023, and Nerdist’s Adam Murray is returning from his hypersleep chamber to bring you a new and expanded version of this sci-fi horror timeline.

Don’t expect a straightforward timeline, because continuity is a mess with the Alien and Predator timelines (even if, as in this list, you choose to ignore tie-in comics, novels, and games). Predator: ...

Predator: Badlands is the ninth film in the Predator franchise, which has had seven main films plus two crossovers with the Alien series. That would be a lot of extraterrestrial carnage to get through ...

An ancient skull unearthed in China’s Hubei Province may push back the emergence of the human species by 400,000 years Peerapon Boonyakiat/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty A human skull found in 1990 ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia, not Africa, a study found. The ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia not Africa, a study said Friday. The ...