Alien first-contact stories are a classic of science fiction, and they’re all the more fascinating because they can feel like predictions of a possible future. This is the book that made me fall in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time revolve around humans in a desperate struggle for survival. Sometimes we’re ...

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 ...

Movies are my true calling, and when he isn't logging reviews on Letterbox, he is covering the latest happenings in the movie and TV world, with the occassional contrarian feature essay. Science ...

In the original novel The Day of the Triffids, the Triffids were not aliens. They were widely cultivated as an agricultural crop and were believed by many to be the product of Soviet biological ...

Aliens have been a subject of films for over a century, and they’ve grown into a beloved and oft-revisited trope in cinema during that time. Envisioned and executed by some of the greatest filmmakers ...

Movies that center on the battles fought by members of the military certainly have their place, but sometimes it's more fun to see what (albeit, fictional) soldiers might do against an alien combatant ...

It's a big universe out there, and while we're all for exploring it, a specific subgenre of science fiction movies has hinted that it might be a bad idea. Alien invasion movies have come in droves ...