The Harvard astrophysicist has devoted years—and thousands of interviews—to the idea that mysterious objects streaking ...

Scientists propose building a lab on the moon to screen Mars and other space samples for alien microbes before they ever ...

The sector framed new media and computer art not as a market novelty but as part of a long history of artists engaging with ...

Is the rest of the cosmos a pristine environment awaiting the arrival of humanity’s “post-human” descendants? Or is advanced ...

When Illumination founder and chief executive Chris Meledandri earlier this month received a star on the Hollywood Walk of ...

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's Disclosure Day is the latest movie to tackle the subject of first contact, but these masterpieces ...

A NASA‑linked study argues that alien probes could already be in our Solar System, but our surveys are still too crude to ...

Even at this early stage in our spacefaring age, humanity has already begun sending probes that will eventually reach other solar systems, even if that was not their original intention. Five robotic ...

In ‘Disclosure Day’ the director reflects on how humanity would confront the discovery that we are not alone, something he is increasingly ‘convinced’ of ...

Star Trek fans' longstanding belief that V'Ger created the Borg is contradicted by several elements of the franchise's canon.

12 years is a long wait to play the sequel to one of your favourite games of all time. During that decade-plus stretch, I’ve re-played the original Alien: Isolation multiple times, analysed its ...