Humanity is on the way to confirming the existence of non-human entities and making contact with aliens within the next 50 ...

Columbia University professor David Kipping predicts humanity's first alien encounter will be with a rare, "loud" ...

Historically, many scientists and society have been fascinated by the prospect of making contact with extraterrestrial ...

Scientists suggest the first alien signal we detect could be a desperate cry for help from a fading civilization.

“Sorry,” says Noah Hawley dryly as the lights abruptly pop back on. The Emmy-winning showrunner has just screened the first 15 minutes of his upcoming FX series ...

All fiction is metaphor,” wrote Ursula K Le Guin. “Science fiction is metaphor.” The writer, most famous for her Earthsea fantasy novels, captured the civil rights movement, second-wave feminism and ...