In recent months, some of the major players in science fiction and popular culture have been taking firmer stances against generative AI. Separate decisions by San Diego Comic-Con and the Science ...

What if life on Earth didn’t begin here at all, but arrived from somewhere else in the universe? Panspermia is the controversial theory that life (or the ingredients for life) could travel between ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

Welcome to January, a month when many of us are keen to escape from the world into the pages of a book. Thankfully, science fiction is here to help, whether that’s with a story set on a generation ...

In July, researchers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System survey telescope in Chile made an exceedingly rare discovery: a mysterious object passing through the solar ...

More than 50 years before ChatGPT could tell you what to cook for dinner, a 1968 science fiction film was shaping how we think about machines that talk to us. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, a Jupiter-bound ...

*Universal Pictures has released the first teaser trailer for Steven Spielberg’s upcoming film “Disclosure Day,” marking the legendary director’s return to alien science fiction. The movie stars Emily ...

So: what were the best works of science fiction published this year? I will start with two new books that aren’t actually new, but have only just been published in English. First up is Ice by Jacek ...

This video explores the controversial claim that alien beings on the Moon are harvesting human souls, analyzing it through the lens of mythology, science fiction, and conspiracy culture. Ghislaine ...

In this month’s picks, there is cloud busting in Peru, a shadowy astronaut drama, doomsday preppers in New Zealand and more. By Elisabeth Vincentelli Rent or buy it on most major platforms. The first ...

The 1980s were a magical time for science fiction. Long gone were the B-pictures of the '50s and '60s as the era of the Hollywood blockbuster was upon us. By the end of the '70s, hits like Superman, ...

A newly detected super-Earth just 20 light-years away is giving scientists one of the most promising chances yet to search for life beyond our solar system. The discovery of the exoplanet orbiting in ...