This novel is nominally about an interstellar voyage. It’s actually about sex, love, God, and the problem of evil.

For roughly the first three decades of his career, Spielberg tended to take a fairly sanguine view of aliens, refusing to succumb to the disaster-movie framework of aliens attacking terrified Earthlings. That changed in a big way after 9/11, when Spielberg made a couple of Tom Cruise -starring sci-fi blockbusters grappling with a changed world.

On June 10, The View hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hostin, Alyssa Farah Griffin, Sara Haines, and guest co-host Sheryl Underwood discussed the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Goldberg was

The fantastic new trailer for Noah Hawley’s FX series Alien: Earth shows humans of every age never learn they can’t control Xenomorphs. There have always been two kinds of monsters in the Alien franchise, each responsible for so much death. The first ...

A playful look at intelligence across aliens, humans, and chimpanzees.