Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the ...

'Star Trek: The Original Series' has a deceptively dangerous episode involving tiny, fuzzy aliens. 'Starfleet Academy' is ...

From the outset of the bit, Fleming notes that he feels a certain kinship with women, by dint of his theatrical background, which includes training in acting and modern dance, and because of his ...

Sound Off is an opinion forum for Mercury readers to offer brief comments on today’s news. Submissions must be 75 words or fewer and are subject to editing for grammar and clarity. Publication is at ...

Many science fiction movies from the 1970s became iconic in the years that followed, but several great sci-fi flicks from ...

Hundreds of people who love the little planet that was dissed, gather every year in the Arizona town where Pluto was ...

He and the other two hundred and ten passengers on Singapore Airlines Flight SQ321 had been in the air for more than ten hours. Their flight had taken off the night before from the United Kingdom, ...

Andy Warhol said, “In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.” At Florida Studio Theatre, Richard and Rebecca Hopkins’ “One Hit Wonders” profiles artists who got 15 minutes of Top 40 fame.

If you’ve ever flipped a light switch or used your favorite cordless gadget, odds are you owe Nikola Tesla a great debt of gratitude. A certified wizard during the Gilded Age, Tesla dueled with Thomas ...

From incendiary prog-rock odysseys to novelty oddities, these 21 unlikely hits prove the 1970s was music’s most idiosyncratic decade ...

Rocket Lab launched a mystery satellite for a confidential commercial customer this evening (March 5). It was the company's 83rd liftoff to date.

A new psychedelic retreat calling itself a “SETI for the mind” aims to establish two-way communication with the nonhuman entities people encounter while tripping on DMT.