We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Ever since H.G. Wells released "War of the Worlds" in 1898, popular culture has been fascinated by alien invasion stories. For over a century, ...

Movies about disasters—natural or human-made—have been produced since the earliest days of film. As early as 1916, a disaster with an extraterrestrial cause was touted in The End of the World, a ...

The alien mothership makes contact with Earth in this scene from ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind.’ Columbia Pictures Amy Adams attempts to communicate with a cephalopod-like, seven-limbed alien ...

On the highly unlikely but equally mind-blowing instance in which aliens really do come down to our shiny blue planet to see what's what, perhaps it might not be wise for world leaders to be the first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Happy Alien Day! And no, not for any supposed extraterrestrial beings watching from the shadows of our solar system, but for the ...

Joaquin Phoenix, Abigail Breslin, and Rory Culkin sit on a couch watching TV with tin foil hats on in Signs. Image via Buena Vista Pictures Distribution M. Night Shyamalan is most notoriously known ...

That forte belongs to the eagle-eyed rookie cop, Sung-ae (a barnstorming Jung Ho-yeon). Watching Ho-yeon don and fire the bulkiest ammo, from rifles to lobbing grenades, gives a delirious high. She’s ...

Steven Spielberg might be best known for "Jaws" and "Jurassic Park", but it's aliens where Spielberg seems to keep returning. Despite a huge roster of movies, "E.T". and "Close Encounters of the Third ...