The standard sci-fi alien is a human actor with ridged forehead prosthetics, human motivations, human relationship structures ...

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As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters ...

A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about ...

A nun discusses the debate on UFOs, suggesting they may be linked to spiritual forces rather than extraterrestrial beings, ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has floated the provocative idea that humans might themselves be alien‑made 'autonomous probes,' built through advanced synthetic biology rather than evolving entirely ...

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself ...

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

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Disclosure Day treats extraterrestrial life as a challenge to faith. It’s not.

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In this podcast edition of Supreme Court Brief, University of Chicago Law School professor Curtis Bradley explains why ...