When Christopher Columbus first came ashore in the Caribbean in 1492, he made first contact with what was, to him, an unfamiliar world. While his journey took place on ships rather than spacecraft, ...

Is intelligent alien life really out there? With powerful telescopes identifying more potentially habitable planets each year ...

Steven Spielberg is back with a new alien movie called Disclosure Day, and it plays on the themes of his past efforts in the sci-fi genre. Spielberg has a strong history in alien movies, and ...

Alien first-contact stories are a classic of science fiction, and they're all the more fascinating because they can feel like predictions of a possible future. Real scientists all over the world are ...

Near the end of Star Trek: First Contact, after Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the crew of the Enterprise stop the Borg from altering history, the movie arrives at the scene its title ...