Robin Dougherty reviews the movie 'Contact,' directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey, based on the novel by Carl Sagan.

When Dubya had his close encounter of the pretzel kind, did he in fact take a trip far, far away?

"Gnomeo and Juliet" is the latest CGI film to feature hideous protagonists. An expert explains how to do it right

These intellectual titans indulged

The notion that the simpler explanation is usually right has been useful for centuries. New science may change that

Pareidolia — seeing faces in patterns — is connected to religious experiences, creativity, and much more

These intellectual luminaries indulged

Neil deGrasse Tyson has taken viewers on a remarkable journey. There's just one big thing he gets wrong

The astrophysicist talked water pollution and anti-science sentiment at New York's Beacon Theatre

The singer-songwriter on her new album, insomnia and why she doesn't think about her fans when she writes

I thought I was a race-conscious white progressive humanist. Coates' book taught me how much I need to learn

Have Peru's violent revolutionaries returned from the dead?

408 stars have been catalogued that might be orbited by planets the size of Earth and may receive similar radiation

"Believe's" Bo and "Resurrection's" Jacob are the two new creepy kids on the block.

Famed physicist Stephen Hawking tackles the predictability of the future and flaws of astrology in an excerpt from his book "The Universe in a Nutshell."