For decades, storytellers have been imagining what it might be like when humanity first makes contact with an alien intelligence. In 1998, author Ted Chiang delivered the novella “Story of Your Life,” ...

Steven Spielberg returns to alien storytelling with Disclosure Day, a global thriller exploring what happens when humanity learns we are not alone.

Extraterrestrials have issued a stark warning to mankind that we risk annihilating our planet in a stunning UFO revelation, which researchers are hailing as "first contact." The ominous alert from ...

Why are we here, what do we need to survive, and who matters to us? Such moral quandaries surround SYFY’s blisteringly funny and perfectly executed dramedy mystery, Resident Alien, more so than most ...

One of NASA’s latest probes is carrying on the grand tradition of blasting humanity’s message out to the cosmos — and this one’s searching for life outside of our pale blue dot. As Gizmodo reports, ...

This is FRESH AIR. Noah Hawley has created successful, well-received television adaptations of the Coen brothers' movie "Fargo" - five seasons to date and counting - and of the Marvel comic book ...

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