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Imagine receiving a message from another world. Not from a distant galaxy millions of light years away, but from a planet ...

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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 ...

This article contains spoilers for the film Disclosure Day. As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters of the Third ...

Illumination, responsible for hits such as the “Minions” and “Sing” franchises, has released the trailer for “Not Alone,” a new alien-themed animated film starring Timothée Chalamet and Selena Gomez.

Are aliens real? Was Fox Mulder right all along? We examine the prediction markets to gauge if the U.S. government will confirm that aliens exist before January 2029. The prediction market on a U.S.

From "Independence Day" to "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", movies and TV shows are packed with advice for anyone aspiring to conquer this unassuming blue dot.

Researchers from the University of Oxford have uncovered evidence that Mars once hosted enormous, Earth-like magmatic systems deep beneath its surface—despite the planet lacking the plate tectonics ...

From The Martian to The Hunger Games, Project Hail Mary to Station Eleven, these sci-fi books have shaped the genre over the ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has found complex carbon compounds in a Martian crater that had previously shown tantalising possible signs of ancient life. On Earth, these compounds are typically ...