When astrobiologists are asked what aliens might look like, many now point not to distant galaxies but to some of the strangest corners of Earth, where researchers on several continents are using ...

Early cinema depicted aliens as human-like for familiarity and practical reasons, but modern science fiction explores ...

Sega and Creative Assembly's Alien Isolation sequel has a brand-new hero, and a compelling setting, plus the same ol' ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life.

Alien: Earth showrunner Noah Hawley clearly didn’t think the franchise was doing enough with the implications of its title. Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) imagined the kind of nightmare lifeforms that ...