Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life.

Early cinema depicted aliens as human-like for familiarity and practical reasons, but modern science fiction explores ...

The final trailer for Steven Spielberg‘s Disclosure Day has given fans a new look at its aliens. The upcoming sci-fi film has shrouded its alien creatures in mystery until now. The film’s cryptic ...

Astrophysicist and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson spills on his obsession with aliens and the best and worst Hollywood depictions of them.

For generations, science fiction has imagined what life might look like on other worlds. These aliens are fictional, sure, but some of them are informed by real evolutionary processes on Earth. That's ...

For generations, science fiction has imagined what life might look like on other worlds. Novelist H.G. Wells described nightmarish squid-like Martian invaders in The War of the Worlds, while the ...