Avi Loeb, a cosmologist who studied black holes and served as head of Harvard’s astronomy department until 2020, has been ...

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

These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial ...

A new exoplanet model screens rocky worlds by their ability to retain atmospheres over geologic timescales, helping narrow ...

Renny Harlin revealed why he walked away from directing Alien 3 after 20th Century Fox rejected his radically different ideas ...

Alien: Earth star, Timothy Olyphant, reveals that Season 2 will take the story for the prequel series' next chapter in a very ...

Alien: Earth — a prequel series set before the original Alien movie — begins streaming and launches on cable this week. The official summary for Alien: Earth reads, “When the mysterious deep space ...

The most notable synthetic in Alien: Earth is Kirsh (Timothy Olyphant), a white-haired robot tasked with looking after Wendy (a new type of synthetic/human hybrid played by Sydney Chandler). Early on, ...

A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about where you live than about what consciousness really requires.

Maybe the real monster in the Alien franchise isn’t actually the killer alien. Because behind the acid blood and jump scares ...