These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial life.

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Space. The final frontier. It’s a setting that takes up a large percentage of our favorite fiction, but which the overwhelming majority of people will never visit. Perhaps that’s what makes it such an ...

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The Alien franchise may be host (a charged word around these parts) to some of the best sci-fi movies of all time, but it's still suffers from something many long-running film series do: an ...

That’s exactly what Project Hail Mary, based on The Martian author Andy Weir’s hard sci-fi novel, is wrestling with. In the movie, not-so-heroic science teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) is blasted ...

With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination with extraterrestrials.