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

From Project Hail Mary to Independence Day, Alien to Arrival, these alien movies are much better than Disclosure Day.

In Ridley Scott’s ALIEN, the audience isn’t introduced to the Xenomorph right off the bat, but to the glorious Nostromo travelling through space. Utilizing industrial scrap and military surplus to ...

The Alien franchise is one of the most iconic and enduring in all of sci-fi cinema, even if not every entry is a classic. The original Ridley Scott movie was essentially greenlit only because the ...

Spielberg and ET looking at each other - Aaron Rapoport/Getty Images Steven Spielberg might be best known for "Jaws" and "Jurassic Park", but it's aliens where Spielberg seems to keep returning.

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

Noah Hawley has brought the sci-fi/horror series to television. Many filmmakers have taken on the "Alien" franchise: James Cameron, David Fincher, Fede Álvarez. Ridley Scott even returned to the well ...

Now the highest-grossing movie of the year, Project Hail Mary is the latest in a long line of lonely space movies to isolate a megastar—in this case, Ryan Gosling—on a distant spaceship. Every guy ...