"Project Hail Mary" really pushes the limit when it comes to non-humanoid aliens. But researchers posit that real aliens ...

Scientists suggest that advanced aliens might not have physical bodies, challenging traditional views of extraterrestrial ...

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist having a Eureka moment, realising in a single dramatic instant that Earth is ...

The question of whether aliens exist is not a new one. In science fiction films and books, people have wondered if we’re the only life in this universe and what that can imply for universes beyond ...

New research suggests that alien radio signals may be transformed by plasma from their home stars — and scientists on Earth ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about education, edtech and higher education. Samples tested for toxic metals at a lab of Columbia University in New York, ...

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

Nicola Griffith and Stephel Pagel, eds. Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction. Overlook Press (212-965-8407), 1998. 375 pp. $26.95 hc. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick begins her Epistemology of the Closet ...

Left to Right: Steven Yeun in "Nope," the alien in Steven Spielberg's "E.T." and Scarlett Johansson in "Under the Skin" (Universal Pictures / A24) It didn’t take long for stories about ...