The “Wow!” signal is one of our best pieces of evidence for aliens, but researchers are building a compelling case for a more ...

A rare visitor from another star system prompted SETI to hunt for alien technology, but the mysterious object appears to be a ...

A sci-fi classic becomes even more powerful as an adult, blending alien wonder with one of cinema's most heartbreaking family ...

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

An interstellar comet that blazed past the sun and swung by Earth last year could be nearly three times older than our solar ...

Where most science fiction films use aliens or government agents to instill fear in their audiences, Close Encounters uses ...

From ‘Close Encounters’ to ‘E.T.’ to ‘Disclosure Day,’ we might begin to understand Steven Spielberg’s religious journey.

The film that set the standard for such otherworldly optimism, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), shares much with ...

Marking the 79-year-old visionary’s long-awaited return to the sci-fi genre is Disclosure Day, which asks a deceptively simple question: how would the world handle the reality if it were discovered ...

Steven Spielberg’s ‘Disclosure Day’ sees Margaret (Emily Blunt) navigate an alien conspiracy, but the big climax feels outdated, far removed from today's media landscape.

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

For roughly the first three decades of his career, Spielberg tended to take a fairly sanguine view of aliens, refusing to succumb to the disaster-movie framework of aliens attacking terrified ...