Scientists have discovered “alien-like” water inside a 400-million-year-old plant, revealing unusual chemistry that could ...

After decades of “Alien” movies (and their rip-offs) convincing us that deep space alien encounters end with bloody bodily destruction, directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller suggest in their ...

I got to see “Project Hail Mary,” the new film by directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, of “Into the Spider-verse,” a ...

A civilization capable of interstellar travel may also be one that has moved beyond conquest, excess and ecological ...

Debunking alien claims matters, but so does telling richer, more compelling stories about how humans shaped their own past.

Live Oak High School’s theater department is embracing the cringe with its staging of “Plan 9 from Outer Space,” an adaptation of the 1957 science fiction film by Ed Wood renowned as one of the worst ...

While sci-fi movies can tell dark tales, there are some that will actually leave you feeling optimistic about what's to come.

The James Webb Space Telescope may have uncovered one of the most exciting clues yet in the search for extraterrestrial life.

But if they’re a little too sci-fi for your taste, new research funded by NASA from the SETI Institute provides a ...

Project Hail Mary” follows Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling), a middle school science teacher who wakes up alone on a spacecraft with absolutely no memory of his identity, past, or mission. Through gradual ...

One of the consultants on Close Encounters was Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the head of an Air Force investigation called Project Blue ...

SETI researchers may have missed alien signals due to a cosmic phenomenon that distorts narrowband radio waves, new research says.