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The man who built the spaceships for 2001, Alien, and Empire has died

Science fiction aficionados and fans of practical effects will want to pour one out today: Brian Johnson, a man responsible ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, once claimed to be an alien spaceship, may be 7 billion years old

When interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was discovered by the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile on July 1, 2025, it quickly attracted ...
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NASA releases images of interstellar comet, not an alien spaceship

Nov. 20 (UPI) --NASA released images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS flying past Mars and, based on the agency's observations, scientists expressed doubt that it is an alien spaceship. Space ...
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The buzz over an ‘alien’ interstellar comet shows how way-out speculation goes viral

An astrophotograph of the interstellar comet known as 3I/ATLAS highlights its green coma and a wandering blue-tinted ion tail. (Copyright Victor Sabet and Julien De ...

Spaceships and Xenos and Eyes, Oh My: ‘Alien: Earth’ Creative Team on Noah Hawley’s Sci-Fi Prequel

How Andy Nicholson and Jonathan Rothbart mixed the old with the new for FX's big-budget horror series "Alien: Earth" ...

SETI finds no evidence of alien tech on 3I/ATLAS interstellar comet

The SETI Institute is the latest to confirm what scientists have long suspected: the interstellar 3I/ATLAS comet is not an ...