Early cinema depicted aliens as human-like for familiarity and practical reasons, but modern science fiction explores unrecognisable forms, challenging perception and our capacity to comprehend the truly alien.

When astrobiologists are asked what aliens might look like, many now point not to distant galaxies but to some of the strangest corners of Earth, where researchers on several continents are using extreme microbes,

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life.

Steven Spielberg and aliens is like cinematic peanut butter and jelly. His "Disclosure Day" is a thriller about a massive government alien cover-up.

Close-up of Pseudoproscopia latirostris, a unique grasshopper species with an elongated head. Native to South America, it uses its distinctive shape as camouflage in ...

The first two episodes of Alien: Earth premiere Tuesday, August 12 on Hulu and FX. Alien: Earth is the latest entry into the long running franchise that all at once pays homage to its source material while breaking some entirely new ground with a thought ...

Alien: Earth showrunner Noah Hawley clearly didn’t think the franchise was doing enough with the implications of its title. Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) imagined the kind of nightmare lifeforms that existed out in the far regions of space; however ...