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Wellington’s beloved street festival CubaDupa today announces its full lineup for 2026, confirming a wave of artists set to transform the Cuba Precinct into a kaleidoscope of music, performance, ...

In 2026, CubaDupa will feature over 210 acts, 70 food vendors, 220 performances, welcoming thousands of visitors into the ...

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 ...

Scientists and NASA officials insist the object is a natural comet, not alien technology. Recent observations found no radio signals from the comet that would suggest it was artificial. The comet made ...

Ridley Scott's inimitable 1979 sci-fi thriller, Alien, expertly ratchets up the tension by not having the titular alien show up on screen until roughly an hour into the film. Following in Scott's ...

In July, researchers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System survey telescope in Chile made an exceedingly rare discovery: a mysterious object passing through the solar ...

The series was a massive hit with fans and critics, earning a 94 percent critic approval rating and 66 percent audience approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and the series premiere rocketed to 9.6 ...

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 ...