NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered the most extensive evidence yet of complex organic molecules on Mars, detecting ...

"If Mars could develop this kind of complex crust without plate tectonics, then maybe the conditions needed for habitability ...

We explore the litany of cinematic deaths of the 1990s and select the five that prove the funniest of the lot. Read more ...

Steven Spielberg and George Lucas‘ creative clash over “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” was recently revealed in a Spielberg oral history published by Vulture. Franchise producer ...

This coincidence—one household possessing such a quantity of superfluous Christmas decorations that its members are moved to put them in their driveway and impel passersby to remove them; my having ...

Here's the best movies of 2026 so far. As writer and director, Maggie Gyllenhaal took a big swing with The Bride!, a dizzying reimagining of the Universal monster from The Bride of Frankenstein.

Many audiences have groaned about the inclusion of the flying saucer at the end of 2008's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull — and its creators weren't particularly enthusiastic about ...

With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination with extraterrestrials.

ET director Steven Spielberg dives back into the extra terrestrial with his latest film while asking 'How do you astonish an audience when anything is possible, and nothing is real?

Science has been wrong before, sometimes in ways that now sound almost impossible to believe. People once accepted ideas like phlogiston, spontaneous generation, and even the claim that bumps on a ...

Adam Kovac . Adam Kovac is a freelance journalist based in New York City. Born in Montreal, Canada, he earned a bachelor's ...