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

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist ...

A nutrition scientist applies metabolism, biology and food science to one of science fiction's oldest questions.

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With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life.

While the movies of Sony’s Spider-Man Universe might have left much to be desired, they did feature an alien threat more powerful than the Xenomorph. Marvel’s Symbiotes are heavily featured, with the ...

In this month’s picks, there are time-looping teenagers, a dermatologist’s nightmare and a story from the alien’s perspective. By Elisabeth Vincentelli Stream it on Hulu. It’s fairly rare to have a ...

Originally conceived in the 1980s as a high-concept sci-fi film of ideas crossed with a police procedural, 1995's Specieseventually took shape as a cheesy and sleazy erotic thriller crossed with a ...

Early cinema depicted aliens as human-like for familiarity and practical reasons, but modern science fiction explores ...