In the first installment of this rare multipart interview series with former Area 51 employee Bob Lazar, we discuss his new ...

Nearly every studio has taken its turn at developing a sci-fi franchise, and while there have been plenty of misses over the ...

Rocky isn’t just one of the most unique aliens in modern sci-fi—he completely rewrites how life itself can work. In this ...

Before zombies shambled about, ghoulishly feasting on the flesh of those too slow to flee, aliens from outer space ruled ...

What would alien life from another planet be like? But we rarely ask the opposite: What would they think of us?

The Supreme Court has a lot of problems with the Trump administration’s theory for restricting birthright citizenship.

In “What We Are Seeking,” the cult author Cameron Reed returns to show us a strange, totally alien world that somehow feels ...

Problems of the natural world can be addressed through, and only through, mastery and cooperation might seem like a truism, but in Weir's stories, it emerges as an expansively hopeful thesis.

Solar winds and coronal mass ejections may scatter narrow signals, making them harder for Earth-based telescopes to detect. The SETI Institute uses radio telescopes to search for signs of intelligent ...

E.T. could be phoning home — but we’re not hearing the call. A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal argues that “space weather” could be distorting incoming transmissions from ...

Bring up aliens and a lot of people will scoff. But not everyone is laughing. Around the turn of the century, 3.8 million people banded together in a real-time search for aliens — with screensavers.

The episode begins with a cold open, in which aliens called Malcorians have discovered that Riker (Jonathan Frakes) was living among them, surgically disguised as a Malcorian. What makes this episode ...