For every "Alien" or "Event Horizon," there are dozens of lesser-known space horror movies that deserve much more love and ...

As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters ...

The best way to find alien technosignatures is to look for ones that have long survived their creators, according to a new paper. Reading time 3 minutes In our search for life beyond Earth, we might ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a child, Steven Spielberg stared at a meteor shower and began his love affair with the sky. The director of the 1977 classic "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" returns with "Disclosure Day," ...

The TRAPPIST-1 system, located about 41 light years from Earth, has been a focal point of much exoplanetary discussion—mainly because it has seven confirmed planets orbiting a dim M-dwarf star. Two of ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Resident Alien has spent the past few years quietly building one of television’s most devoted fan bases, thanks in no small part to Alan Tudyk‘s delightfully oddball ...

When the Trump administration registered the domains Aliens.gov and Alien.gov in March, UFO conspiracy theorists wondered whether they might finally get answers they’d long awaited. But coming on the ...

Dropping a tribute to Ridley Scott’s 1979 “Alien” halfway through his franchise-expanding series wasn’t easy. But Noah Hawley just had to do it. “The show was already a huge lift, and then to sort of ...

The White House has launched a new website called Aliens.gov — but the extraterrestrial-themed page isn't for disclosures on unidentified flying objects. Instead, it's an immigration enforcement ...