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.

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The TV series Alien:Earth has introduced a number of ...

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, ...

Are we alone in the universe? Consider mysterious "extraterrestrial" radio signals. Unexplained gases on other planets.

From "Independence Day" to "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", movies and TV shows are packed with advice for anyone aspiring ...

When it comes to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, methane and other chemical compounds are seen as signs of ...

When a spaceship crash-lands on Earth, a sister searches for her brother amidst an unexpected alien threat. Sometime later there is a a ship-wide catastrophe, a containment breach which has all alarms ...

Left to Right: Steven Yeun in "Nope," the alien in Steven Spielberg's "E.T." and Scarlett Johansson in "Under the Skin" (Universal Pictures / A24) It didn’t take long for stories about ...

The idea that octopuses might be aliens emerged from the theory of panspermia (Stelele 2018), according to which life on Earth is not entirely of terrestrial ...