For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...

A financial crisis could be triggered by an announcement that aliens exist, according to Helen McCaw, a former policy expert of the Bank of England. McCaw told The Times of London that politicians and ...

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...

Noah Hawley, the creative force behind FX‘s Alien Earth, is staying in business with the network and Disney Entertainment Television. Hawley has signed a new overall deal, continuing the creative ...

Now, the new film Predator: Badlands is getting attention for its prominent use of Weyland-Yutani, the organization that has been a major part of the Alien franchise ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, ...

Even though it was obviously a dude in a suit, the Xenomorph in the first Alien film is downright terrifying. Due in part to its limited screentime, creating an atmosphere full of tension, and its ...

Alien: Earth just wrapped up its first season and all I can say is, what a mess. Where to even begin with the dreadful, sloppy, pointless finale? How about a spoiler warning. The episode starts with ...

The hybrid kids have an important revelation about who should be afraid of whom. Just deserts will be served. By Sean T. Collins A few weeks ago, I was talking to a friend about where “Alien: Earth” ...