Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got stranded on earth when his alien compadres abandoned their botany mission. In Project Hail Mary,

For instance, what if we really are being visited by aliens from other worlds and they turn out to be aggressive, violent, malicious, and have evil intentions? How will the world

Unlike Star Wars, which takes place a long time ago in a galaxy far away, the Alien movies have always been a glimpse into humanity's distant-but-imaginable future. Putting aside the non-canon Alien vs. Predator movies, the franchise spans from as early as ...

In space, no one can hear you scream, but they can sure hear you scratching your head as you try to make sense of the sprawling “Alien” universe. While Ridley Scott’s 1979 haunted-house-in-the-cosmos horror story “Alien” may have kicked things ...