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 ...

With his new movie, Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg wonders how humankind would react to undeniable proof of the existence of extraterrestrials. It's a subject that pop culture has been fascinated ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? It was a temperate summer evening on September 19, 1961, when husband-and-wife duo ...

As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters of the Third Kind contact humans using music and lights, but the director ...

Right from the jump it's clear that FX's new series Alien: Earth is paying homage and gets its influence from the first two movies in the Alien franchise. The show's creator Noah Hawley (Legion, Fargo ...

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 ...

All fiction is metaphor,” wrote Ursula K Le Guin. “Science fiction is metaphor.” The writer, most famous for her Earthsea fantasy novels, captured the civil rights movement, second-wave feminism and ...

Hilary Benn has been pressed over his reaction to a claim that beheading people is an “alien culture”.

This small-screen prequel to "Alien" "should not be as good as it is", said Rebecca Nicholson in the FT. Ridley Scott's 1979 classic spawned "a sprawling franchise" of sequels and spin-offs, mostly ...

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 ...

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, ...