Sci-fi fans have been eagerly counting down the days until Project Hail Mary finally lands in theaters, and the excitement keeps building as new footage trickles out. The upcoming film stars Ryan ...

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

Assuming intelligent aliens know how to harvest energy from stars, would humanity be able to spot these high-level structures?

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...

Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for Fallout, Season 2The second season of Prime Video's hit Fallout TV series came to an end on Tuesday night, delivering its fair share of surprising ...

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Steven Spielberg poses with the animatronic puppet from ET at Carlo Rambaldi’s studio in April 1982 - Mark Sennet/Getty Images ...

‘Alien: Earth’ will return for a second season. Creator Noah Hawley has signed a new deal with FX. The new season will start shooting next year. As one of the biggest, buzziest TV hits of the year, ...

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...