Scientists are looking for ways to detect alien warp drives lurking in space. While these hypothetical propulsion systems are most famous in science fiction stories like Star Trek, scientists believe ...

In Robert Zemeckis’s 1997 film Contact, Dr. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) discovers an alien signal, analyzes it, cracks its code, deciphers a blueprint for a gigantic space travel machine, convinces ...

“I am afraid of my visions.” Thus spoke H.R. Giger, the artist whose paintings led to him being engaged by director Ridley Scott to design the xenomorph for the first Alien film in the late 1970s.

Sometimes it seems like we got to the galactic party late and everyone has already gone home. Our species only figured out how to get into orbit within the last century. Since then, we’ve flown ...

They're baaaaack, and as peevish as ever. Well, not exactly. To say that the nasty aliens in Ridley Scott's eponymous franchise have returned is wrong. His new movie, "Alien: Covenant," is a prequel, ...