A provocative theory circulating among artificial intelligence researchers suggests that once machines achieve human-level intelligence and beyond, they might create something entirely unexpected: a ...

Visitors from beyond the stars have arrived. What secrets could our intergalactic friends share? What wonders could these ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For as long as humans have looked up at the night sky, we've wondered who, or what, might be looking back. Journalist Becky ...

Invasive alien species are driving human displacement, according to a new research paper published this month in Frontiers.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Timothy Olyphant in "Alien: Earth." (Patrick Brown/FX) The rich irony at the heart of the storied "Alien" franchise is that at 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 ...

When tackling a story that spans far longer than a two-hour film, the characters can experience a more in-depth journey while on the small screen. The Xenomorph aspect of the Alien franchise has ...

The following contains spoilers for the first two episodes of Alien: Earth. It comes to light that Kavalier is building synthetics with the sole purpose of placing human consciousness inside of them, ...