Annabelle Culham works at the Landing Pad gift shop in St. Paul on July 10, 2026. Steven Sandor - Postmedia (Credit: Steven ...

The U.S. Space Force launched two satellites to orbit and engaged them in a game of cat and mouse to prepare for possible ...

With new technologies come new opportunities. And that is especially true in astronomy—with every new advanced telescope, we ...

A petition to save Valko crossed 300K signatures, fans built a shrine at Anime Expo, and CaseOh backed the campaign.

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. “Project Hail Mary,” the film adaptation of Andy Weir’s ...

There’s no data to suggest that aliens exist. However, if we believed they existed and came to Earth, our planet would offer them a somewhat risky buffet. There is liquid water, as well as salts, ...

As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters of the Third Kind contact humans using music and lights, but the director ...

Brian Johnson, who has died aged 86, was an Oscar-winning visual effects maestro and modelling specialist who contributed significantly to the look of modern science fiction.

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself resurfaces: if aliens were to arrive on Earth, would they come to conquer us, ...

We're still in the definition phase of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), but it seems like every week a new research group comes out with a paper helping to shape what is becoming one of the ...

Left to Right: Steven Yeun in "Nope," the alien in Steven Spielberg's "E.T." and Scarlett Johansson in "Under the Skin" (Universal Pictures / A24) It didn’t take long for stories about ...