One unexpected choice in the Alien franchise's best prequel breaks a big rule of spinoffs by shattering franchise continuity, ...

Ridley Scott's near-perfect sci-fi horror masterpiece is surging on streaming before the franchise's next release.

A ruling today by the U.S. Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to turn away asylum seekers at the border. The move ...

Christopher Nolan has finally revealed the films that helped shape The Odyssey. The Oscar winner pointed to two classics in ...

Earth is well underway. Alien: Earth moved from Thailand to Alien's ancestral home of Pinewood, and production began in May, ...

Alien director Ridley Scott eventually returned to the franchise, but couldn't complete his ambitious plans. Here's what his unmade movie could have been about.

Disney's Alien: Earth ended an era for the famous monsters, but the prequel series taking a big risk with the direction it's taking the franchise.

With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination with extraterrestrials.

12 years is a long wait to play the sequel to one of your favourite games of all time. During that decade-plus stretch, I’ve re-played the original Alien: Isolation multiple times, analysed its ...

Are humans alone in the universe? The answer is more complicated than science fiction might suggest. Scientists have discovered billions upon billions of potentially habitable planets. But if life is ...

Steven Spielberg says he "would not be the right person" to serve as an ambassador for humanity when we meet aliens. The filmmaker says that he "would really look forward to" a real-life Disclosure ...

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist having a Eureka moment, realising in a single dramatic instant that Earth is ...