As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters ...

The Alien franchise has always focused on just one titular alien — the Xenomorph. Yes, over the years, we got extrapolations of the Xenomorph, like the Queen, and the facehuggers. Yet they all still ...

A nutrition scientist applies metabolism, biology and food science to one of science fiction's oldest questions.

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist ...

These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial ...

A lot of the alien races in the Star Trek universe are humanoid, and the original series explained that fact way back in the ...

In her new book "First Contact," journalist Becky Ferreira explores the scientific search for alien life, our cultural obsessions with extraterrestrials and why the truth may be more human than we ...

Marvel is set to launch Aliens Vs X-Men later this year, stylised as AVX, with Kieron Gillen leading the series. Aliens Vs ...