The first Subnautica – which I'll call SN1 for simplicity – is an open-world survival crafting game set on an alien ocean ...

Beneath the icy silence of Antarctica's famous Dry Valleys lies a world so unusual that it often resembles another planet.

12 years is a long wait to play the sequel to one of your favourite games of all time. During that decade-plus stretch, I’ve re-played the original Alien: Isolation multiple times, analysed its ...

A look at the surreal landscapes of Socotra, home to some of the most unusual and alien-looking trees on Earth. Known for ...

The 1990s were a transitional period for both the television industry and the broader science fiction genre. Throughout the ...

Not all islands are surrounded by water. Some are ringed by wheat fields, highways, fences, suburbs and municipal boundaries.

When the Trump administration registered the domains Aliens.gov and Alien.gov in March, UFO conspiracy theorists wondered whether they might finally get answers they’d long awaited. But coming on the ...

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist having a Eureka moment, realising in a single dramatic instant that Earth is ...

It's one thing to watch "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" in a theater. Watching it with Steven Spielberg? That's a master class. Viewing a scene with Richard Dreyfuss, the conditions of filming ...

For generations, artists and science-fiction writers have imagined alien landscapes beneath twin sunsets. The image became iconic in popular culture long before astronomers confirmed that planets ...

His conversations with Hewson and Domingo are, respectively, two of the most thrilling scenes of the film, especially because ...