This twist — that 3I/ATLAS' outer layers have been baked by the sun — does not derail our mission. It just makes the science more interesting. Astronomers are clever. They will find ways to peel back ...

From the immersive sim mastery of Dishonored 2 to the farming perfection of Stardew Valley, these 2016 games are now revered as modern classics.

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Oxygen is a vital and constant presence on Earth today. But that hasn't always been the case. It wasn't until around 2.3 ...

Some 66 million years ago, life on Earth had a pretty bad day. The infamous Chicxulub asteroid slammed into the planet. 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 ...

The Alien universe has grown since our last log in 2023, and Nerdist’s Adam Murray is returning from his hypersleep chamber to bring you a new and expanded version of this sci-fi horror timeline.

Don’t expect a straightforward timeline, because continuity is a mess with the Alien and Predator timelines (even if, as in this list, you choose to ignore tie-in comics, novels, and games). Predator: ...

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 ...

Predator: Badlands is the ninth film in the Predator franchise, which has had seven main films plus two crossovers with the Alien series. That would be a lot of extraterrestrial carnage to get through ...