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It contains mining and recording materials to search for alien life under the surface of the moon. Excelsior – from the 1918 Danish film Himmelskibet (A Trip to Mars), "The film that marked the beginning of the space opera subgenre of science fiction." – Phil Hardy [20] F-302 Mongoose – air/space/hyperdrive strike craft in Stargate SG-1 [21]
The Zerg alien race in the video game StarCraft traverse space via sentient, organic vessels called "Leviathan". [7] Farscape's Moya is a female Leviathan transport vessel; a living sentient bio-mechanical space ship, who was once captured by the Peacekeepers. She escaped captivity along with the people imprisoned on her by the Peacekeepers.
Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O'Bannon, based on a story by O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett.It follows a spaceship crew who investigate a derelict spaceship and are hunted by a deadly extraterrestrial creature.
"Black Destroyer" is a science fiction short story by Canadian-American writer A. E. van Vogt, first published in Astounding SF in July 1939. It has been marked as the story that represents the start of the Golden Age of Science Fiction. [1] "Black Destroyer" was combined with several other short stories to form the novel The Voyage of the ...
The story, which explores themes of humanity, xenophobia and social segregation, begins in an alternate 1982, when an alien spaceship appears over Johannesburg, South Africa. When a population of sick and malnourished insectoid aliens is discovered on the ship, the South African government confines them to an internment camp called District 9.
A new look at the first interstellar object known to have visited our solar system gives a thumbs-down to more outlandish explanations.
Scientists spotted an oddly shaped visitor in our solar system in 2017. And it was accelerating in an unexplainable way. The icy object, called ‘Oumuamua, which roughly translates to "messenger ...
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyBetween 1957 and 1968, scientists decided to try their hand at creating new minerals that could act as very effective conductors of ...