After the cancellation of Neill Blomkamp 's planned film, and the box office underperformance of Ridley Scott 's Alien: ...

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The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) has long been a topic of fascination. However, a new study available on ...

For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to prepare us for eventual contact with aliens. Their efforts are dominated by several recurrent tropes. There's the invasion by a warlike ...

An artist's illustration of an alien technological civilization on a distant planet. The colours are exaggerated to show growing atmospheric pollution. Image Credit: NASA/Jay Freidlander. For decades, ...

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These bewildering out-of-place artifacts, or OOPArts, often seem too advanced for their time and place, leading to wild theories about advanced ancient civilizations and even aliens. Out-of-place ...

If aliens are out there, why haven’t we heard from them? That’s the question at the center of Pop Mech’s new story, “Aliens Probably Exist—But They’re Staying Silent For a Reason, NASA Scientist ...

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Don’t expect a straightforward timeline, because continuity is a mess with the Alien and Predator timelines (even if, as in this list, you choose to ignore tie-in comics, novels, and games). Predator: ...

Predator: Badlands is the ninth film in the Predator franchise, which has had seven main films plus two crossovers with the Alien series. That would be a lot of extraterrestrial carnage to get through ...