The screenwriter talks about adapting Andy Weir's novel for the screen, and the challenge of writing dialogue for smart characters.

Sci-fi masterpieces like Annihilation and Children of Men reward multiple rewatches, thanks to their complex narratives and ...

A financial crisis could be triggered by an announcement that aliens exist, according to Helen McCaw, a former policy expert of the Bank of England. McCaw told The Times of London that politicians and ...

We spend one-third of our lives asleep. This biological fact is something that, with time and technology, is less and less taken for granted. In many science fiction stories, the future of sleep is ...

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

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 ...

Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner’s upcoming book is a philosophical exploration of the humanity behind our desire to find aliens. Reading time 6 minutes At Gizmodo, we love a good story about ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

In “Alien: Earth,” the year is 2120, and the planet is run by corporations that treat it like private fiefdoms. Cyborgs and synthetics live alongside humans, but the balance shifts when Prodigy ...

Will Jones for Winter is Coming: Hello Steve! It’s a pleasure to get to talk to you. First and foremost, I wanted to ask you about stepping into the Alien franchise. It’s obviously such an iconic and ...