With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination with extraterrestrials.

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

Back when Alien: Earth premiered on FX and Hulu, all of three weeks ago, IGN’s Clint Gage said in his review of the first two episodes that, “The xenomorph is playing the hits, as it were. But this ...

For nearly 50 years, the Xenomorph has been one of the most iconic monsters in movie history. First introduced in 1979's Alien, the creature felt like something truly otherworldly — a nearly ...

Hybrid humans, corporate nation-state competitors, and xenomorph chat rooms: we’ve learned much since the USCSS Maginot went splat on New Siam in Alien: Earth Episode 1 (“Neverland”). We’re also ...

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When you hear the word "alien" in reference to the film series begun by Ridley Scott in 1978, you probably think of one specific kind of alien: the Xenomorph. The ultra-violent extraterrestrial ...

Editor's note: The below contains spoilers for Alien: Earth Episode 4. When Ridley Scott's Prometheus came out in 2012, many fans were disappointed by the lack of xenomorphs. Scott aimed to fix that ...

Among the many strange biological wonders Charles Darwin observed in his time, one haunted him above all. “‘The eye, to this day, gives me a cold shudder,” he admitted in a letter to an American ...

There’s no data to suggest that aliens exist. However, if we believed they existed and came to Earth, our planet would offer ...

Left to Right: Steven Yeun in "Nope," the alien in Steven Spielberg's "E.T." and Scarlett Johansson in "Under the Skin" (Universal Pictures / A24) It didn’t take long for stories about ...