James Cameron has been named the recipient of the Writers Guild of America West’s 2026 Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement.

Lunar New Year celebrations are in full swing as millions participate in festivities and honor traditions believed to bring ...

These original Xbox couch co-op titles made highly memorable experiences for friends and family alike. Here are 10 standouts.

Ridley Scott’s 8-part sci-fi series has been reborn as the perfect weekend binge while audiences wait for Season 2.

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

While we try to maintain older articles behind the scenes on downthetubes on a fairly regular basis – removing dead links, for example – it’s rare for updates to throw up a new mystery. Originally ...

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

The Cosmos is calling MIIS tabletop gamers to the library on October first! From 7-9 PM, Joelle will be running Cosmic Encounter, the game that pits space alien against space alien in a struggle for ...

One night in 1957, Antônio Vilas Boas was plowing his field in rural Brazil when he saw mysterious red lights flying through the sky. What he presumed was a spacecraft landed in a nearby field.

Aliens, Avengers, and X-Men collide in an intergalactic war. Survival depends on uneasy alliances and raw power. FBI warns of 3-phase scam that is draining bank accounts Bruce Willis’s wife hits out ...