Alien set a standard for the sci-fi horror genre, but in the years since, new TV mediums have put their own spin on the ...

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For an interview on a Slate podcast this month, I was asked to pick a movie that exemplified 2025—not the year’s best film ...

Suspense is an artform,” said Bruce Holsinger, the author of “Culpability,” a tense family drama about the ramifications of a ...

From Stalker to Metropolis, these are the most hauntingly poetic sci-fi movies, using the genre's unique strengths to explore deeply humane themes.

Is there an Outer SpaceX? With 3I/ATLAS set to fly by Earth in just over a week, experts continue to speculate over its origins. Harvard Scientist Avi Loeb believes that if aliens, the comet wouldn’t ...

The Dark Forest theory is one proposed solution to the famed Fermi Paradox, which has bewitched astronomers for more than half a century. To put it concisely, the paradox asks if the cosmos is nearly ...