When you look back at ’90s and 2000s sci-fi, it’s amazing how one movie with a giant stone ring changed virtually everything.

First contact with extraterrestrial intelligence may be anything but subtle. Researchers argue that our initial signals from alien worlds will likely be loud, dramatic, and indicative of civilizations ...

The Drake Equation looks like a simple way to estimate alien civilizations — but the implications are brutal. If the number ...

While some “unfilmable” novels have been successfully adapted, the books on this list might be too difficult to even attempt.

A "crowdsourced" project in which home computer users were enlisted to help analyze radio signals from space is ending after more than two decades.

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Think Klingons are just loudmouthed louts with terrible table manners? Think ...

Still, the fancy persists, implanted like a microchip, ever since Erich von Däniken’s 1968 best-seller, “Chariots of the Gods ...

While there are a lot of sci-fi films that could go on this list (and really, any sci-fi film is worth watching more than once) there are some films that are just perfect for multiple viewings. Here ...

The film tips its hat to a variety of animated forebears, including the works of celebrated director Hayao Miyazaki.

Netflix is preparing to bring back one of television’s most influential sci-fi shows. All 10 seasons of Stargate SG-1 are set ...

Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi thriller “Inception,” the heartwarming tale of mentorship “The Karate Kid,” John Carpenter’s horror film “The Thing,” and the Pixar animated superheroes fantasy “The ...