Humanity is on the way to confirming the existence of non-human entities and making contact with aliens within the next 50 ...

Aliens might be transmitting communications signals to each other across exoplanets, some astronomers think. Since these signals are likely sent as narrowband radio waves, we may now have a way to ...

Historically, many scientists and society have been fascinated by the prospect of making contact with extraterrestrial ...

Scientists suggest the first alien signal we detect could be a desperate cry for help from a fading civilization.

Columbia University professor David Kipping predicts humanity's first alien encounter will be with a rare, "loud" ...

“Sorry,” says Noah Hawley dryly as the lights abruptly pop back on. The Emmy-winning showrunner has just screened the first 15 minutes of his upcoming FX series ...

All fiction is metaphor,” wrote Ursula K Le Guin. “Science fiction is metaphor.” The writer, most famous for her Earthsea fantasy novels, captured the civil rights movement, second-wave feminism and ...