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 ...

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself ...

This novel is nominally about an interstellar voyage. It’s actually about sex, love, God, and the problem of evil.

The curious minds at What If explore what your voice sounds like on different planets.

Disclosure Day’s Aliens Are Pretty Much Every Stereotype Brought To Life. We don’t really see much of the aliens in ...

A lot of the alien races in the Star Trek universe are humanoid, and the original series explained that fact way back in the ...

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

A column by Winona LaDuke, an Ojibwe writer and economist on Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation. She also is co-curator of ...

Re: “ This White House ‘aliens’ stunt is monstrous ” (Page A7, June 11).

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