The standard sci-fi alien is a human actor with ridged forehead prosthetics, human motivations, human relationship structures ...

Bill Maher recently fired shots at the Presidential Center opened by Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, in Chicago.

Explore ancient mysteries and theories about alien involvement in ancient civilizations, from the Nazca lines to Puma Punku.

The best way to find alien technosignatures is to look for ones that have long survived their creators, according to a new paper.

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist having a Eureka moment, realising in a single dramatic instant that Earth is ...

And if aliens made of different stuff potentially possess consciousness, then why not minds made of silicon, metal, and ...

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...

Somewhere out there, a planet roughly the size of Earth may be orbiting a distant star in conditions that could support life.

12 years is a long wait to play the sequel to one of your favourite games of all time. During that decade-plus stretch, I’ve re-played the original Alien: Isolation multiple times, analysed its ...

It’s an entertaining production marketed as “a Granite City alien sing-along.” This month, WACOSA and the Paramount Center for the Arts’ collaboration Empowered Stars is putting on their third-annual ...