There's a lot of memorable stuff in 1997's The Fifth Element. There are the costumes, the hair, the wild performances, the ...

Before long, the smoke screen cleared, and sure enough, Akiba was gone. “How did they manage to move something that heavy...” Hakase chimed in with a calm, sharp remark. “There are any number of ways.

King Arthur, his assistant Patsy, a Knight of Ni, and a shrubbery at Comic-Con. (Photo by Thomas Melville/Times of San Diego) Brace yourself, San Diegans. Tens of thousands of people, many in costume, ...

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When the Trump administration registered the domains Aliens.gov and Alien.gov in March, UFO conspiracy theorists wondered whether they might finally get answers they’d long awaited. But coming on the ...

When Neil deGrasse Tyson was 9 years old, he visited the Hayden Planetarium for the first time. Growing up gazing into light pollution in the Bronx, he had no idea there were that many stars. “I was ...

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WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's face lit up while he was answering questions this week about his recent assignment to identify and release government files on whether aliens exist. "Did ...