Special effects master Stan Winston, who created the creatures in 'The Terminator,' 'Predator' & 'Jurassic Park,' is the ...

A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about ...

As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters ...

These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial life.

Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that consciousness is likely 'substrate flexible', challenging the belief that only flesh-and-blood Earth organisms can be truly aware.

Alien conspiracy theory is getting respectable (with a little help from "Disclosure Day"), and it has helped bring America back to magical thinking.

Those pesky space aliens are at it again … or I should say, conspiracy theorists’ hopes, dreams, fantasies and wish fulfillment, along with a combination of government reluctance to give adversaries ...

Previous landmark scientific discoveries like the Higgs boson provide a better template for what it will take to confirm whether aliens have made contact with Earth.

Obsession is maybe too hard-edged; interest too soft. But from “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “E.T” to his new sci-fi thriller “Disclosure Day,” Steven Spielberg has spent nearly the entire ...

12 years is a long wait to play the sequel to one of your favourite games of all time. During that decade-plus stretch, I’ve re-played the original Alien: Isolation multiple times, analysed its ...

The trip had all the makings of a boring car ride—until the couple saw mysterious lights approaching from the sky.

The TRAPPIST-1 system, located about 41 light years from Earth, has been a focal point of much exoplanetary discussion—mainly because it has seven confirmed planets orbiting a dim M-dwarf star. Two of ...