From Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary to the international masterpiece The Three-Body Problem, these alien-themed science ...

Alien first-contact stories are a classic of science fiction, and they're all the more fascinating because they can feel like predictions of a possible future. Real scientists all over the world are ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? It was a temperate summer evening on September 19, 1961, when husband-and-wife duo ...

As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters of the Third Kind contact humans using music and lights, but the director ...

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 ...

All the talk in Hollywood right now is the release of Steven Spielberg's new alien movie, Disclosure Day. Although Spielberg has certainly never lost his touch, the film feels like a return to his ...

That little alien emoji staring back from your phone, with its smooth, bulbous head and almond-shaped black eyes, has ...

Have you read Max Evry's A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch’s Dune? It's the kind of making-of movie book that's hard to come by these days - not just definitive, but also honest in a way that the ...