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 ...

Movies about disasters—natural or human-made—have been produced since the earliest days of film. As early as 1916, a disaster with an extraterrestrial cause was touted in The End of the World, a ...

Astronomers have confirmed the discovery of a new interstellar object passing through the solar system sparking fascination and, online, a wave of misinformation claiming it could be an alien craft ...

A massive, unusual comet is hurtling through our solar system, yet NASA seems unfazed. While the scientific community offers measured, reassuring statements about the enigmatic object 3I/ATLAS, a ...