Alien director Ridley Scott eventually returned to the franchise, but couldn't complete his ambitious plans. Here's what his ...

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

In the following six books, each writer looks to space to skillfully explore what it means to live on Earth. Salvation and ...

The X-Men are officially meeting the deadliest aliens in the universe in a crossover that'll make superhero and horror fans ...

Invertebrates make up the vast majority of animal life on Earth, yet many of them seem more alien than familiar. Unlike ...

Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that consciousness is likely 'substrate flexible', challenging the ...

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself resurfaces: if aliens were to arrive on Earth, would they come to conquer us, ...

Steven Spielberg discusses his family's views on extraterrestrial life and explains how Disclosure Day continues his ...

The Alien franchise has become synonymous with the deadly Xenomorph, with the predatory alien race becoming utterly iconic in ...

A nutrition scientist applies metabolism, biology and food science to one of science fiction's oldest questions.

Does consciousness depend on flesh and blood? The answer is almost certainly no, according to Eric Schwitzgebel, a ...

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 ...