Are we alone in the Universe? With more than 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe and at least 500 billion planets ...

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, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alien first-contact stories are a classic of science fiction, and they're all the more fascinating because they can feel like ...

For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to prepare us for eventual contact with aliens. Their efforts are dominated by several recurrent tropes. There's the invasion by a warlike ...

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 ...