Zachary Fine began writing for The New Yorker in 2023 and joined the magazine as a contributing writer in 2026. He teaches at ...

From the rise of disco at Studio 54 to the cultural impact of movies like Star Wars and Alien, the late ’70s were defined by ...

If Dr. Seuss had designed a forest, it would probably look a lot like the Joshua Tree Forest near Meadview, Arizona. This ...

From Project Hail Mary to Independence Day, Alien to Arrival, these alien movies are much better than Disclosure Day.

Abstract: Since landing on the Meridiani Planum region of Mars in January 2004, the Mars exploration rover (MER) vehicle named Opportunity has been sending back pictures taken from several different ...

Islands may be chunks of land surrounded by water, but they don’t have to be. Think traffic island. A bit of grass, maybe a tree. A bird or two can come and go. But anything not able to fly is ...

For this recently completed project, Herzog & de Meuron converted a 1980s telecommunications tower on the popular Mount Titlis in Switzerland into a visitor attraction. The Swiss architecture studio ...

Do not shout ‘alien!’” Amid surge of public interest in UFOs or UAP, one group updated its rules for how news of extraterrestrials should be revealed.

If you've ever watched Starship Troopers and wondered about the genuinely alien-looking landscape, its location may surprise you. It’s not another planet. It's a section of Wyoming badlands ...

It's one thing to watch "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" in a theater. Watching it with Steven Spielberg? That's a master class. Viewing a scene with Richard Dreyfuss, the conditions of filming ...