FX's new series Alien: Earth opens with a scene familiar to any fans of the storied science fiction horror film franchise: A crew of dysfunctional, blue-collar workers waking from extended hibernation ...

The Alien universe is back, baby. Unsurprisingly, attempting to experiment on the alien goes horribly wrong for the scientists. As a result, their facility -- a massive ship split between parts ...

Moviegoers taking in the new Alien: Romulus were in for quite a few jump scares and surprises as director Fede Alvarez brought one of sci-fi's best properties back to the big screen on Friday, August ...

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E.T., title star of the 1982 movie, is deeply nonhuman: benevolent, selfless, and greedy for nothing more than some Reese's Pieces. So did the poor guy deserve to be terrorized by thugs in hazmat ...

Be it sci-fi, immigration or even artificial intelligence, the concept of "aliens" mirrors how we define fear, fascination and the "others" among us. What springs to mind at the mention of "alien"?

It becomes easier to get around a new place if you have an atlas handy. When it comes to navigating your way around marketing to an alien culture, your atlas can be any source of information created ...

Kicking things off, we’ve chosen a baseline for these opening encounters. Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind represents how most people hope a real-life alien encounter will go down ...

There’s no data to suggest that aliens exist. However, if we believed they existed and came to Earth, our planet would offer them a somewhat risky buffet. There is liquid water, as well as salts, ...

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself resurfaces: if aliens were to arrive on Earth, would they come to conquer us, ...