And when people are convinced that they know a secret, world-shaking truth, they are willing to wait a long time for ...

The sci-fi thriller “Hole in the Sky” imagines an alien first-contact scenario set in the heart of Cherokee Nation.

While the A.I.-powered private Alpha School day camp in the Hamptons promises “life skills” for youngsters, the activities offered are those you don’t typically see at ordinary ...

Just over 40 years ago, in his novel Contact, astronomer Carl Sagan imagined what it would be like to detect radio signals beamed from other intelligent lifeforms in the galaxy. In the story, these ...

Lately, however, co-founder will.i.am has been speaking to a new generation – quite literally – with his three-hour-long, ...

Just like in “Star Trek,” technology should function as infrastructure rather than instructor, part of the environment, not ...

Do aliens exist? Could Earth really be the only planet hosting intelligent life? Debates over the existence of extraterrestrials date back to the earliest Indigenous and western thought. The tools ...

A research team has developed a new approach to detecting life beyond Earth that does not rely on identifying specific biological markers. Instead, the study suggests that life may be detectable ...

Todd Weiler makes a persuasive case for religion to be part of K-12 U.S. history curricula (“Religion Belongs in American History Class,” Houses of Worship, April 10). Yet American religion from the ...

EXCLUSIVE: We have the first major cast addition to FX‘s Alien: Earth for its upcoming second season. Emmy winner Peter Dinklage has been tapped as a new series regular on the sci-fi drama from Fargo ...

In these science fiction books, extraterrestrial beings are sympathetic, horrifying and everything in between. By James S.A. Corey James S.A. Corey is the pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, the ...