If and when SETI discovers alien life, a revised Declaration of Principles guarantees once the discovery has been verified, its disclosure will come soon after.

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 being visited by creatures from light-years away.

FX's new series Alien: Earth opens with a scene familiar to any fans of the storied science fiction horror film franchise: A crew of dysfunctional, blue-collar workers waking from extended hibernation in a sprawling spaceship. In this case, it's the year ...

As I found while working on my own novel, writing about aliens can be strangely helpful in this pursuit. Just as astronomers use telescopes to examine celestial objects light-years away, novelists can invoke imagined civilizations to reveal truths closer to home,

SPOILER ALERT! This story contains details from episode 5 of Alien: Earth on FX. Something might feel wildly familiar about episode 5 of FX’s Alien prequel. That’s because the spacecraft that ultimately crashes on earth is a virtual carbon copy of the ...

Alien — the creature and the franchise — is a shape-shifter. In the interplanetary dystopia of the Alien movies, the parasitic creature that parasitic CEOs are always trying to capture — and that blue-collar space truckers, Marines, miners or ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Close watchers of FX‘s Alien: Earth probably figured out weeks ago that hybrid heroine Wendy (Sydney Chandler) shares some sort of mysterious affinity with the Xenomorph aliens that have crashed on Earth. We’ve seen her ...

Like the xenomorph itself, Alien: Earth has (chest) burst onto FX and Hulu with the first two episodes of the highly anticipated prequel series. True to form for show creator Noah Hawley, who has previously bent minds with Legion and Fargo, his latest ...