The late 90s and early 2000s saw an explosion in sci-fi shows thanks to the continued success of Star Trek. While the decade ...

After winning an Oscar for "The Brutalist," the English composer takes on a musical about the founder of the Shakers — a close collaboration with Amanda Seyfried.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, we go from Christmas Eve to New Year’s Day, with plenty of ...

How did Sarah Schachner make the Yautja sing? Read our 'Predator: Badlands' interview on the film’s killer score and cultural world-building.

Sci-fi television had undergone a pretty wild evolution in the 2000s. In the span of one decade, the genre went from feeling ...

Astronomers searching for signs of life beyond Earth have spotted something strange. An as-yet unexplained radio signal appears to be coming from the direction of the star closest to the sun—a small ...

There are few things as life-affirming as baking a chocolate cake from scratch, but sometimes it’s simply not possible. Maybe your kid is sick, or you’re running late, or you forgot to pick up ...

So it's that time of year again. The moment when awards season kicks into high gear and the entire internet collectively ...

Nick León speaks with Pitchfork's Mano Sundaresan from Pitchfork Music Festival London about a busy 2025, his breakout solo ...

From the breakout Brooklyn band Geese to the Puerto Rican star and soon-to-be Super Bowl halftime performer Bad Bunny and dozens in between, NPR Music shares its picks for the best songs of 2025.

The comet 3I/ATLAS is taking a long holiday journey this year. It's visiting from another solar system altogether. It's the third interstellar object recorded passing through our solar system.

The Dark Forest theory is one proposed solution to the famed Fermi Paradox, which has bewitched astronomers for more than half a century. To put it concisely, the paradox asks if the cosmos is nearly ...