A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

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 ...

Are we the only intelligent life in the vast universe? Hints for the answer will be found at an exhibition titled "The Science of Aliens," which is currently running at the National Museum of Emerging ...

If you found out we weren't alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? That question sits at the heart of Disclosure Day, Spielberg’s new film. Here are 10 movies that ...