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

Disclosure Day had people talking for its fresh take on alien contact and powerful sci-fi themes. These films follow the same ...

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

A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about ...

Renny Harlin revealed why he walked away from directing Alien 3 after 20th Century Fox rejected his radically different ideas ...

What if you found out that you had a long-lost relative? And what if that long-lost relative was from a different planet in ...

The Great Filter theory suggests advanced civilisations may self-destruct before contacting others, explaining the universe's ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has floated the provocative idea that humans might themselves be alien‑made 'autonomous probes,' built through advanced synthetic biology rather than evolving entirely ...

Steven Spielberg and aliens is like cinematic peanut butter and jelly. His "Disclosure Day" is a thriller about a massive ...

In this podcast edition of Supreme Court Brief, University of Chicago Law School professor Curtis Bradley explains why ...

A polarizing Harvard astronomer known for splashy theories about alien visits has been tapped by the White House to lead a ...

A column by Winona LaDuke, an Ojibwe writer and economist on Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation. She also is co-curator of ...