Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, ...

Fears of extraterrestrial probes rise with 3I/ATLAS's sunward jet, but NASA debunks: routine comet activity ahead of 29 Oct 2025 perihelion. Scott Lord : Pexels Panic grips social media as whispers of ...

Should we prepare for alien invasion? That question has gained new urgency with the appearance of interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS. This object is not bound to our Sun. It arrived from beyond our solar ...

It's a big universe out there, and while we're all for exploring it, a specific subgenre of science fiction movies has hinted that it might be a bad idea. Alien invasion movies have come in droves ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1938, Orson Welles hosted a radio version of H.G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds” that reportedly sent listeners into a panic by ...

One day in 1950, the great Italian physicist Enrico Fermi was walking to lunch with some scientist friends. The talk turned to life elsewhere in the universe. Surely, someone remarked, there must be ...

Every year, science fiction fans from across the globe visit a nature reserve in search of an alien landing site. A sandpit in Woking's Horsell Common features in HG Wells' 1898 The War of the Worlds ...