In these science fiction books, extraterrestrial beings are sympathetic, horrifying and everything in between.

Humanity's ideas about aliens have been evolving for millennia – but in the era before television, they were considerably stranger. In October 1961, Betty and Barney Hill sat down with an astronomy ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Two years ago, in her debut novel The Hunger, Alma Katsu took a fairly well-known historical disaster — the ...

Searching for alien languages sheds light on how much human languages have in common—with each other and even with animal ...

Movies like "Disclosure Day" and "Project Hail Mary" renew our fascination with extraterrestrials and the idea that humankind ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the opening pages of Van Jensen’s Godfall (Bantam £20), the body of a three-mile-tall alien with gleaming ...