In these science fiction books, extraterrestrial beings are sympathetic, horrifying and everything in between.

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For decades, humanity has searched the cosmos for signs of alien life—but the real twist is that we may not wait to be found. Scientists have already begun considering how to send messages into deep ...

Stepped-up interest in UFOs also is swirling as the United States heads back toward the moon with Wednesday's launch of ...

Interest in unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) surged in February when Barack Obama stated aliens are "real," though he ...

The subject of UFOs and aliens is vast and complex, making it impossible to summarize in one article. Flying saucers/UFOs made headline news throughout the world in 1947, sparked by two major, highly ...

Alien (1979) Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O'Bannon. Based on a story by O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett, it follows the crew of the commercial ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. [CLIP: The spaceship Hail Mary’s operating system (played by Priya Kansara) speaks in ...

Following on from the recent news that the TV show’s second season will be its last, IDW Publishing launches the first Star ...

The filmmaker made his first-ever appearance on the CinemaCon stage in Las Vegas for his upcoming Universal film about the ...

Aristotle's views on the nature of the cosmos dominated the Ancient Greek world. He argued that there's only one world, at ...