That little alien emoji staring back from your phone, with its smooth, bulbous head and almond-shaped black eyes, has ...

Netflix has a fantastic sci-fi show based on a novel series that was once considered unfilmable, but now it's getting a ...

Starfleet encounters​​​. Whether it's the warlike Klingons, the logic-seeking Vulcans, or the alluring Orions, the Star Trek ...

From the Greys to the Nordics, these aliens appear frequently across abduction stories and science fiction tales.

The town of Harmony, Mississippi, which owes its origins to a small number of formerly enslaved Black people who bought land from former slaveholders after the Civil War, is nestled in Leake County, a ...

First, there was the release of the so-called UFO files by the Trump administration in May, which sparked a wide range of reactions from religious Americans. Then there was a new blockbuster summer ...

We usually assume one planet gets one intelligent species, and that anything else is fantasy. But this episode explores a stranger possibility: two different lineages could reach high intelligence on ...

The legendary director on why he thinks aliens are real, and why he makes movies about things that scare him. Hosted by Rachel Abrams The legendary director on why he thinks aliens are real, and why ...

With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination with extraterrestrials.

As Steven Spielberg releases a new film on extraterrestrials, here's a brief history of modern alien conspiracies and why scientists are now taking UFO reports seriously. Amid all the unanswered ...

Sci-fi, at its core, is social commentary. And it’s not reserved for nerds or dorks or Star Wars fans as one might imagine. Underneath the imaginative “what if” situations and scientific jargon are ...