In these science fiction books, extraterrestrial beings are sympathetic, horrifying and everything in between.

Searching for alien languages sheds light on how much human languages have in common—with each other and even with animal ...

It's the start of a new season, and that means plenty of new fantasy and sci-fi books to add to your bookshelf. Here are 13 ...

Movies like "Disclosure Day" and "Project Hail Mary" renew our fascination with extraterrestrials and the idea that humankind ...

In “What We Are Seeking,” the cult author Cameron Reed returns to show us a strange, totally alien world that somehow feels ...

Adapted from a novel by Andy Weir and directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, “Project Hail Mary” is marketed as the ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. [CLIP: The spaceship Hail Mary’s operating system (played by Priya Kansara) speaks in ...

At the same time, science continues to feed back into pop culture. Advances in genetics, epidemiology and AI provide new ...

No One Will Save You, starring Kaitlyn Dever, tried to hide that it was actually an alien invasion movie.

The conflict in the Mass Effect games between alien races the quarians and the geth drew inspiration from Battlestar ...

The newest sci-fi movie on this list is from 2016, yet each movie still feels eerily current, from the subject matter to the ...