Professor Brian Cox has revealed how he left BBC bosses ‘panicked’ over potentially finding extraterrestrial life while filming one of his series.

With Seth MacFarlane teasing a (hopeful) season four (someday), here are the must-watch episodes of his underrated sci-fi series.

"Project Hail Mary," in theaters March 20, champions the joy of learning in a humorous take on the scientific method and apocalyptic space thrillers.

Theoretically, it’s impossible for us to perceive a 4D creature. That is, unless it broke into our three-dimensional reality.

For decades, the idea of alien life has lived somewhere between science and science fiction. From Hollywood & Bollywood films to grainy UFO footage on the internet, the possibility that humanity is ...

Two things are true about Project Hail Mary, whether or not you end up liking the movie. You will be stuck with 'Sign of the Times' by Harry Styles in your head for at least a week, and you will fall ...

If a new science fiction film strongly reminds you of a handful of others, how much of a problem is it when those others are among the best things the genre’s done in 25 years? When it comes to the ...

Sandra Hüller also stars in Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s sci-fi epic based on the Andy Weir novel about a science teacher who finds an unusual ally in a mission to save two worlds.

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller's lone-astronaut saga wants to be "Interstellar" meets "E.T.," but it's too long and too cutely formulaic. There are clichés that critics go back to, and when I ...

When former science teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) wakes up on a spaceship with amnesia, he is forced to team up with an adorable alien to save the world.

Project Hail Mary is the kind of ambitious science-fiction blockbuster that remembers something many movies in the genre forget: saving the world can be thrilling, emotional, and genuinely funny at ...

It’s been a minute since we’ve had a big screen space epic that’s as fun as it is awe inspiring. The last memorable one might have been “The Martian, ” so perhaps it shouldn’t be all that surprising ...