With 'Project Hail Mary' opening in theaters, here are several essential films that explore the strange, high-stakes ...

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Weir—who also wrote the novel that became The Martian—picks inspirational works from Isaac Asimov, Iain Banks, and George ...

A new White House URL is out of this world (wide web). The eyebrow-raising domain name — “Aliens.gov” — has been added to the ...

After decades of “Alien” movies (and their rip-offs) convincing us that deep space alien encounters end with bloody bodily destruction, directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller suggest in their ...

A Space Odyssey and Everything Everywhere All at Once have the best and most effective use of dialogue in the genre.

If you believe humans are bound to discover extra-terrestrial life, you probably fall into one of two broad camps. Either you ...

In an appearance at NASA's JPL, the actor explains why his latest intergalactic role was so 'liberating,' while the movie's ...

“I have a very strong suspicion that we are not alone here on Earth right now,” the filmmaker said during a keynote interview at the SXSW Film & TV Festival in Austin on Friday, March 13 ...

Former Pentagon official Christopher Mellon says he has seen 'shocking' satellite images and videos of apparent non-human ...

The actor plays a molecular biologist trying to help save the world in this upbeat science-fiction fantasy from Phil Lord and ...

David Cronenberg can't stand the sci-fi horror movie directed by Ridley Scott, which he believes writer Dan O'Bannon ...