The Giza Pyramids are among the best documented construction projects of the ancient world, yet a stubborn slice of popular culture still credits them to visitors from another planet. I want to ...

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...

While Steven Spielberg has created some of the best aliens in cinema, the 79–year–old director now claims he also knows a thing or two about real–life extraterrestrials. In an interview promoting his ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Elon Musk discussed his views on whether aliens exist during a ...

SEVEN Earth-sized planets line up neatly next to their tiny star. The first is far too hot, its surface probably a morass of lava. The seventh is much too cold and may even be frozen solid. But the ...

It didn’t take long for stories about extraterrestrials to reach our cinemas. George Méliès “A Trip to the Moon” introduced weird, easily explodable aliens called Selenites that capture the first ...

Obsession is maybe too hard-edged; interest too soft. But from “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “E.T” to his new sci-fi thriller “Disclosure Day,” Steven Spielberg has spent nearly the entire ...