Few movies are as closely tied to the Fourth of July as Independence Day. Released in 1996, the blockbuster became a summer ...

Before superhero movies ruled the box office, one alien invasion blockbuster owned the holiday. It’s hard to think of a movie ...

Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, and Vivica A. Fox star in the iconic film, which hit theaters July 3 1996.

A look at the idea of searching for signs of pollution beyond Earth.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivered a robust defense of the country's immigrant roots ahead of the 250th July 4 ...

The makers of the blockbusting sci-fi thriller reveal how they made a hit, why Kevin Spacey was almost involved and what went wrong with the sequel ...

Murder, suicide, spontaneous combustion, sleepwalking, ventriloquism: These are some of the sensational events in the novels of Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810). As the United States' first ...

For decades, humanity has searched the universe for signs of alien life — but some scientists warn that finding it may come ...

In a 6–3 ruling, the Supreme Court upheld near-universal birthright citizenship, striking down an executive order that would ...

Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi triumphs Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial understood and exploited fears of the other while championing understanding and communion as the ...

Spielberg has returned to the subject of extraterrestrial life with his new blockbuster. But, falling far short of Close Encounters and ET, it's a major disappointment. Disclosure Day isn't the worst ...