Before leaving on a fossil-hunting trip for a summer 2021 field paleontology class, a Montana State University junior made an ...

The combustible sedimentary rock, better known as coal, was not only crucial to the onset of advanced technology here on Earth, but it should also be key to the development of advanced E.T.s residing ...

The catastrophic impact of an asteroid 66 million years ago brought death and devastation on Earth—but also fascinating new life.

From the immersive sim mastery of Dishonored 2 to the farming perfection of Stardew Valley, these 2016 games are now revered ...

Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic ...

Science fiction often shows aliens with human features like eyes, limbs, and faces. But science has a reason for questioning this idea. Through convergent evolution, similar environments and physical ...

The Alien universe has grown since our last log in 2023, and Nerdist’s Adam Murray is returning from his hypersleep chamber to bring you a new and expanded version of this sci-fi horror timeline.

Don’t expect a straightforward timeline, because continuity is a mess with the Alien and Predator timelines (even if, as in this list, you choose to ignore tie-in comics, novels, and games). Predator: ...

Here’s the thing those trailers didn’t tell you: Predator: Badlands is absolutely chock-full of synths. Not only do we get Fanning as Thia (a bisected robot who offers to help the film’s Predator ...

Predator: Badlands is the ninth film in the Predator franchise, which has had seven main films plus two crossovers with the Alien series. That would be a lot of extraterrestrial carnage to get through ...