The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions comes up with an epic extraterrestrial playlist for Earth’s first contact from beyond the stars This week’s new question: ...

Steven Spielberg isn't just the director of several classic movies featuring aliens. He's also a believer. His father, Arnold Spielberg, was an electrical engineer and big science fiction reader who ...

Yet Disclosure Day begins in the most unlikely of ways for him, with a first-person view of a raucous wrestling match. Has even he succumbed to the performative “ma-cheese-mo” of the Trump era? Don’t ...

Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin took heat from figures on the right for saying that Haitians facing deportation can apply to remain in the United States, but he may have been ...

Our search for technosignatures – clear signs of advanced civilizations beyond Earth – takes many forms. Many are driven by the famous Drake equation, which attempts to estimate how many technological ...

Collier Jennings is an entertainment journalist with a substantial amount of experience under his belt. Collier, or "CJ" to his friends and family, is a dedicated fan of genre films - particularly ...

As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters ...

A rare visitor from another star system prompted SETI to hunt for alien technology, but the mysterious object appears to be a ...