For decades, scientists have been actively searching for signs of extraterrestrial life. Fromradio waves to laser flashes and infrared heat signatures, the hunt for alien technosignatures has ...

Former President Obama has walked back the shocking comments he made about the existence of alien life, claiming they needed further clarification.

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...

Sequelitis is a serious problem in the world of cinema. When a masterpiece is made, the executives are eager to capture that lightning in a bottle a second time. That leads to sequels that must be ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of these is whether Earth is the only place that harbors life. In the last 30 ...

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 ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

Very rarely, except perhaps in the realms of anime and the Marvel Universe, can one find such an intriguing, detailed and exciting cartoon. BAD: Bureau of Alien Detectors is about a team of heroes who ...

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

Generative artificial intelligence has set off a tremendous amount of excitement, speculation, and anxiety thanks to its ability to convincingly mimic human work, including human writing. Although a ...