For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to prepare us for eventual contact with aliens. Their efforts are dominated by several recurrent tropes. There's the invasion by a warlike ...

Steven Spielberg is synonymous with science fiction, and he’s especially associated with sci-fi stories that feature aliens, but it’s actually been 20 years since the director of E.T. and Close ...

Here’s the thing those trailers didn’t tell you: Predator: Badlands is absolutely chock-full of synths. Not only do we get Fanning as Thia (a bisected robot who offers to help the film’s Predator ...

The breakout star of Alien: Earth on FX was not actually the Xenomorph, or even any of the synthetics or hybrids. And as cool as he was, it was not even the cyborg Mr. Morrow. No, it was the tentacled ...

Laura Nicole Driessen is an ambassador for the Orbit Centre of Imagination at the Rise and Shine Kindergarten, in Sydney's Inner West. On October 29, Comet 3I/ATLAS reached its closest point to the ...

“Close Encounters of the Third Kind” is considered a landmark science-fiction film that fueled greater curiosities about the wonders and mysteries of extraterrestrial life. Now more than 48 years ...

Here are some recently released titles to add to your reading list. This week, we read First Contact: The Story of Our Obsession with Aliens, plus James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds' take on Dracula ...

The first time Fontella “Faun” Day believes she saw life from another planet, it came from above. It was a cloudy afternoon in Rachel, Nevada, and the phones and computers at the Alien Cowpoke gas ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...