As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters ...

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A lot of the alien races in the Star Trek universe are humanoid, and the original series explained that fact way back in the ...

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself ...

This novel is nominally about an interstellar voyage. It’s actually about sex, love, God, and the problem of evil.

What if you found out that you had a long-lost relative? And what if that long-lost relative was from a different planet in ...

These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial life.

A column by Winona LaDuke, an Ojibwe writer and economist on Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation. She also is co-curator of ...

The United States government’s recent release of hundreds of previously classified Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) cases spanning the 1940s to the present, along with the new Steven Spielberg ...

Amanda Lohrey’s 10th novel, Capture, follows a clinical psychologist researching patients who say they have been abducted.

Humans and great apes have been giggling in similar ways since branching off the evolutionary tree, a new study suggests. How ...

In the Star Trek franchise, the first human being to ever meet a Klingon on the timeline isn't an astronaut or an adventurer, ...