Alien: Earth's Emmy-winning composer Jeff Russo said he used an Aztec death whistle to help create the music for the series' ...

Linguists can mix, match or even break the rules of real-world languages to create interesting imaginary ones.

Long before Artemis II captured our attention by taking humans farther from Earth than ever before, humans have been fascinated by the possibility of exploring other worlds, finding life on other ...

One of the nice things about prose is the absolutely enormous narrative checks you don’t ever have to cash. Andy Weir can write that an alien scientist from the star 40 Eridani has a tonal language ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X “I’ve always been fascinated with things that cannot be explained,” Spielberg revealed in a 2026 ...

How would we recognize a message from an alien civilization if we cannot understand its language? By combining information theory, Zipf’s Law, and studies of human and dolphin communication, ...

Why does “bouba” sound round and “kiki” sound spiky? This intuition that ties certain sounds to shapes is oddly reliable all over the world. For at least a century scientists have considered this ...

Steven Spielberg may be one of genre filmmaking’s all-time greats, but in recent years, he’s focused on period pieces like Lincoln, The Fabelmans, and his lavish adaptation of West Side Story, with ...

No one really knows what Disclosure Dayis about — and that seems to be exactly what Steven Spielberg wants. The acclaimed director's mysterious new UFO movie was first announced in April 2024, per ...