One unexpected choice in the Alien franchise's best prequel breaks a big rule of spinoffs by shattering franchise continuity, ...

Cambridge leads UK cities in police-recorded UFO sightings, with a '1 in 400 lifetime chance' claim. However, the data ...

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist having a Eureka moment, realising in a single dramatic instant that Earth is ...

Beyoncé’s company Parkwood Entertainment beat a copyright lawsuit over the EDM sample that opens her hit 2022 "Renaissance" track “Alien Superstar.” ...

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A Stanford scientist's model suggests many small rocky planets can't sustain atmospheres, potentially explaining the scarcity ...

The United States government’s recent release of hundreds of previously classified Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) cases spanning the 1940s to the present, along with the new Steven Spielberg ...

When it comes to influential sci-fi franchises, Alien remains the pinnacle of the more gritty side of the genre. The franchise launched all the way back in 1979 with sci-fi legend Ridley Scott at the ...

Each question in the ABC 50/50 quiz has only two options: one is right; the other is wrong. But there's a catch.

A rare visitor from another star system prompted SETI to hunt for alien technology, but the mysterious object appears to be a ...

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions comes up with an epic extraterrestrial playlist for Earth’s first contact from beyond the stars This week’s new question: ...