Seth MacFarlane's sci-fi comedy The Orville is both absurd and surprisingly complex, with Bortus being one of the best alien characters on TV.

Liquid water might not need a perfect location to exist, and neither might alien life. Researchers now believe that planets ...

Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares have a new book titled If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us ...

ICE has been given orders that critics say grant them the power to arrest “anyone they want,” according to an internal memo.

The memo suggests the rules are designed to give ICE greater flexibility to quickly arrest unauthorized immigrants who are not the original targets of an operation.

St. John's Episcopal Cathedral spent months working on an immigration proposal — and last week presented it to U.S. Rep. John ...

From a bioluminescent nightime sea to rare wildlife, natural wonders are on tap in the Gothenburg archipelago ...

Horror? Guaranteed. Survival? Less so.

The memo was dated Jan. 28 and signed by by Acting Director Todd Lyons.

An internal directive issued this week by Immigration and Customs Enforcement is reshaping how immigration arrests are ...

When you look back at ’90s and 2000s sci-fi, it’s amazing how one movie with a giant stone ring changed virtually everything.

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