Everyone knows Yuri Gagarin as the first person to go to space. But was he? Literary historian Vladimir Brljak tells the tale of the intrepid balloonists who first flew beyond the blue terrestrial sky ...

In the 1980s and '90s, people across the world started sending and receiving their very first emails. This included former U.S. President Bill Clinton. According to one claim (archived) circulating ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from First Contact Protocol An adventure-puzzle game with branching choices, cinematic cutscenes, and a crew fighting to survive aboard a damaged starship. Games ...

The episode begins with a cold open, in which aliens called Malcorians have discovered that Riker (Jonathan Frakes) was living among them, surgically disguised as a Malcorian. What makes this episode ...

Disgraced sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein said he had “new administration people” visiting his Little Saint James Island in 2016—just a month before President Trump’s first inauguration. In a December ...

This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. When I left for college in the fall of 1991, the internet era was just beginning. By sophomore year, I received my ...

Earth’s first contact with an extraterrestrial civilization is likely to arrive as something hard to miss, not a quiet or subtle trace. That expectation matters now, because decades of discovery show ...

UPDATE 1/16/26: After previewing the option to change your Gmail address on a customer support page in Hindi, Google has now updated an English-language FAQ page with the same information, so check ...

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