Director James Cameron’s acclaimed sci-fi movie Aliens turns 40 in August in the UK (it was released in the US in July). It’s a sequel to Ridley Scott’s claustrophobic breakout hit Alien, made in 1979 ...

News that Scott is working on a follow-up to his maligned 2017 film leaves me worried the franchise has run out of shocks If any science-fiction saga looked beyond recovery, it was the Alien franchise ...

A copy of the game Ripley’s Hive Exterminator Pack – Includes an exclusive cosmetic outfit themed to Ellen Ripley’s appearance near the dramatic climax of 1986’s blockbuster masterpiece, Aliens. All ...

The Trump administration has activated a secretive and never-before-used legal process to quickly deport foreign nationals deemed to be “alien terrorists” or their immediate family members. The ...

James Franco is doubling down on his claim that he has captured real alien footage — and the internet isn’t buying it. The disgraced actor, 48, resurfaced on TikTok last month after years away from ...

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 ...

You might think this column is about UFOs and the Pentagon's recent declassified files. It's not. We're talking about technosignatures, the evidence of alien technology: a radio or laser signal, ...

There is an arrogance to assuming that if conscious, sentient beings exist somewhere else in the universe, they’d probably look a lot like us. According to a new paper by philosophers Eric ...

Aliens are among us—or at least a lot of people seem to think they might be. According to a 2026 poll from CBS, one in five Americans believe aliens have already visited our planet, and 17% of people ...

It didn’t take long for stories about extraterrestrials to reach our cinemas. George Méliès “A Trip to the Moon” introduced weird, easily explodable aliens called Selenites that capture the first ...

The International Academy of Astronautics has updated its protocols for confirming and announcing the discovery of alien life. New guidelines address the modern challenges of social media, ...

On May 22, 2026, the Pentagon released a second batch of previously classified photos and videos showing what appear to be unexplained flying objects. These file dumps were the culmination of a ...