THIS week’s Icon, the actor Bill Paterson, appears to have appeared in almost everything. He has a guid Scots voice, not “och aye the noo”, nor yet inarticulate footballer; not at all elocuted but ...

The crowd-pleasing "Project Hail Mary" blends high-stakes science with humor, heart, and a race to save humanity.

When Ryan Gosling interacts on screen with his alien buddy, which he does for more than half of “Project Hail Mary,” he wasn’t staring at a green screen as cameras rolled. I ...

Starman reveals another side of John Carpenter, who stepped away from horror to craft a gentle romantic drama with sci‑fi and ...

A mechanical rhino featured in a gnarly and memorable “butt birth” scene in the 1995 flick “Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls” will go up for auction in late March. The rhino, originally reduced to its ...

Ridley Scott's inimitable 1979 sci-fi thriller, Alien, expertly ratchets up the tension by not having the titular alien show up on screen until roughly an hour into the film. Following in Scott's ...

Ridley Scott's ALIEN (1979) gets a full movie breakdown and analysis by Erik Voss on The Deep Dive! Sign up to Milanote for free with no time-limit: Alien is one of the best films of all time, a true ...

Case in point: James Cameron’s Aliens took a sharp turn from Ridley Scott’s original film, changing the tone from a sci-fi/horror nightmare to an action-horror thrill ride. Cameron was clearly ...

For the first time, scientists have directly detected molecules in a Frisbee of gas and dust swirling around an alien gas-giant planet. “I didn’t think this was possible,” says astronomer Sierra Grant ...

I’m team Renner on this one. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Renner shared the behind-the-scenes nugget during a Space Con 2025 ...