In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same backwards as they do ...

Humanity's ideas about aliens have been evolving for millennia – but in the era before television, they were considerably stranger. In October 1961, Betty and Barney Hill sat down with an astronomy ...

Cixin Liu is a Chinese science-­fiction novelist whose Hugo Award-winning The Three-Body Problem (2008) recently teleported to Net­flix. According to Liu’s notion of the cosmos as a “dark forest”, ...

Alien lifeforms are likely to have evolved their own unique ways of communicating, so how might humanity communicate with them if ever make contact? "We know where to look. We know how to look." ...

An eco-masterpiece, icy intrigue, cyberpunkish cyborgs, memory-eating aliens and super-fast travel sends the world spinning out of control ...

Heyyyy, it's spooky season… wait, what do you mean Halloween is over? Well, we don't care. Predator is back in theaters, Alien is good again, and we feel like getting our horror on, so let's look at ...