Ů��С��Ƶ

Skip to content

The one film to watch before seeing Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day

Space

The one film to watch before seeing Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day

With Steven Spielberg’s new extraterrestrial film Disclosure Day just out, it’s the ideal time to watch Close Encounter of the Third Kind – perhaps the perfect UFO film, says film columnist Bethan Ackerley

Culture

The book jacket of Togetherness by Rowan Hooper

Life

New Ů��С��Ƶ recommends Togetherness, a radical new view of life

Culture

How a radical new view of life could reveal its origin – and aliens

Life

How a radical new view of life could reveal its origin – and aliens

Features

The distant world that is our best hope of finding alien life

Space

The distant world that is our best hope of finding alien life

Features

Environment

The ‘doomsday’ glacier’s giant ice shelf is about to break away

News

Space

US government releases huge batch of UFO files

News

Environment

There has been a sudden increase in the rate of sea level rise

News

Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft snapped pictures of the asteroid Ryugu while flying alongside it two years ago. The spacecraft later returned rock samples from the asteroid to Earth.

Space

The asteroid Ryugu has all of the main ingredients for life

News

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare on Oct. 2, 2014. The solar flare is the bright flash of light on the right limb of the sun. A burst of solar material erupting out into space can be seen just below it. Full 4k full-disk view. https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11670/

Space

SETI may have missed alien signals because of space weather

News

Space

Chemistry clues could detect aliens unlike any life on Earth

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds could be a useful indicator

News

Environment

Sea levels around the world are much higher than we thought

News

Physics

Would aliens do physics, or is science a human invention?

Comment

Space

Search for radio signals finds no hint of alien civilisation on K2-18b

News

Life

Weird and wonderful fungi should be so much more than sci-fi villains

Comment