Alien.gov mystery grows after White House says 'Stay tuned'

In a statement provided to USA TODAY on March 19, White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly said, "Stay tuned!" including an alien emoji after her message. The Pentagon did not ...

Bringing Rocky to Life: How ‘Project Hail Mary’ Puppeteer James Ortiz Created the Movie’s Lovable Alien

When Ryan Gosling interacts on screen with his alien buddy, which he does for more than half of “Project Hail Mary,” he wasn’t staring at a green screen as cameras rolled. I ...

‘Project Hail Mary’ explores unique forms of life in space – 5 essential reads on searching for aliens that look nothing like life on Earth

The fictional biologist in ‘Project Hail Mary’ claims that potential alien organisms might not be made of carbon or require water, unlike life on Earth.
Alabama Public Radio

Ryan Gosling and a cute alien team up to save humanity in 'Project Hail Mary'

Perhaps the reason Project Hail Mary hits the spot in the spring of 2026 is that novelist Andy Weir, who wrote the 2021 novel and also the book The Martian, is fundamentally an optimist. Both stories ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Alien Life Could Look Nothing Like What We Expect. Here’s How Microbes Beyond Earth Might Live Without Liquid Water

Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s ...
Digital Production

On a Mission: Creating “NO ONE’S LIGHT”

No One’s Light documents a 12-month HFF München student production: story reduction, alien environment design, Blender Geometry Nodes, CloudRig character rigs, manual keyframe animation, and Nuke ...
Poynter

Why Donald Trump and Barack Obama are suddenly talking about aliens

President Donald Trump said Thursday he will direct multiple U.S. government agencies to declassify files related to aliens and UFOs. The move came five days after former President Barack Obama ...
TechCrunch

For open source programs, AI coding tools are a mixed blessing

A world that runs on increasingly powerful AI coding tools is one where software creation is cheap — or so the thinking goes — leaving little room for traditional software companies. As one analyst ...
The Daily Signal

EXCLUSIVE: Heritage Says States Should Charge Tuition to Illegal Alien Children

Virginia Allen is a senior news producer for The Daily Signal and host of "The Daily Signal Podcast" and "Problematic Women." Send an email to Virginia. Children should not receive a free education at ...
PBS

Obama shuts down alien buzz: 'no evidence during my presidency'

Former President Barack Obama said he did not see evidence that aliens "have made contact with us," after sending social media abuzz by saying aliens were real on a podcast over the weekend. During a ...
NPR

Federal judge says U.S. must give due process to deported Venezuelans

A federal judge on Monday said the U.S. government denied due process to the Venezuelan men it deported to a prison in El Salvador in March after President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act. The ...
Phys.org

The first alien civilization we encounter will be extremely loud

For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to prepare us for eventual contact with aliens. Their efforts are dominated by several recurrent tropes. There's the invasion by a warlike ...