These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial life.

New SETI protocols outline how scientists should verify, share, and respond to potential evidence of alien intelligence in the modern information age. Reading time 4 minutes The moment of first ...

Left to Right: Steven Yeun in "Nope," the alien in Steven Spielberg's "E.T." and Scarlett Johansson in "Under the Skin" (Universal Pictures / A24) It didn’t take long for stories about ...

From improv in Krypton's language to choosing the big action scene's song, director Craig Gillespie and screenwriter Ana ...

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains plot details, including about the ending, from DC Studios’ “Supergirl,” now playing in ...

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Even with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)—one of the most advanced astronomical instruments ever built—we still don’t get enough data to confirm signs of life beyond Earth. Detecting life on a ...

Renny Harlin revealed why he walked away from directing Alien 3 after 20th Century Fox rejected his radically different ideas ...

If you read any account of the original Alien: Isolation’s development process, at some point there’s always mention of how Ridley Scott’s 1979 masterpiece was playing on a constant loop in Creative ...

Spielberg returns to one of his favorite subjects with a fun and goofy popcorn movie that shows how far he's come in the last 50 years.

Ahead of the Annecy preview of his latest film, Bird spoke to IndieWire about his long-awaited passion project, a sci-fi noir inspired by "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Big Sleep." “There is a weird ...

A new study in Mycologia provides new details on how the Lanmaoa asiatica mushroom produces Lilliputian hallucinations in users -- which no other fungus is known to do. Sirichai Puangsuwan - ...