Symbols that can’t be understood have always captivated human imagination, especially when they tell a story. Some games lean into this captivation by asking players to decipher alien imagination, ...

Aliens are some of the most enduring creatures in the human imagination, alluring with the promise of the unknown and posing a threat. Indeed, throughout the 20th century, both film and TV have turned ...

Robert Smith is convinced the aliens have won. "The invasion has happened—it's all over," says the University of Alberta space historian who teaches a course on the history of extraterrestrials. It's ...

Take WASP-76 b, a gas giant 640 light-years from our planet. It is a tidally locked planet with a scorching-hot dayside 4,350 degrees Fahrenheit (2,400 degrees Celsius) that reduces metals like iron ...

On November 21, 1990, one of the biggest promises in movie history was made to audiences, one that wouldn’t be fully realized on the big screen for thirteen more years. At the conclusion of Predator 2 ...

Alien Earth’s first season has ended, and the important bit of that is “first” season. What seemed like it might have been a miniseries was in fact meant to have multiple seasons, and now we have some ...

"Elio" is about a kid with an active imagination who gets beamed into space and mistaken as Earth's ambassador. So what does it take to get to space? Are there alien life forms out there? What makes ...

Otherworldly aliens are as important to the "Star Wars" saga as a rousing score or elaborate outer space fights between cool spaceships. From the very first entry in this narrative, "Star Wars" has ...