In deep, tropical offshore waters, there exists a whale that’s roughly the size of a dolphin. Sightings of it are extremely rare, and few people have captured it on film. Despite its small size, it ...

Scientists have discovered alien-like brine pools deep beneath the ocean, forming dense, hypersaline lakes on the seafloor. These extreme environments, lethal to most marine life due to high salinity ...

The colonisation of Mars has long been a human dream. But as Scott Solomon explains in Becoming Martian, it would be a ...

A suspected biological laboratory raided by Las Vegas police and the FBI may be connected to a similar incident in California, where officials found infectious agents such as HIV and malaria, the ...

Deep in the Atlantic Ocean, far from any coastline and out of reach of sunlight, scientists have mapped a sprawling undersea landscape that looks uncannily like a ghostly metropolis. Towering spires, ...

Part of what makes some classics worthy of such a title is the ingenuity and borderline movie magic they employ to tell their story. In the case of "Alien," for example, director Ridley Scott used ...

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 ...

Ridley Scott's inimitable 1979 sci-fi thriller, Alien, expertly ratchets up the tension by not having the titular alien show up on screen until roughly an hour into the film. Following in Scott's ...

Hawley will continue Wendy’s (Sydney Chandler) story in Alien: Earth Season 2, with the xenomorphs now under her command as she rules over Neverland. With this new premise set up, the creator was ...

‘Alien: Earth’ will return for a second season. Creator Noah Hawley has signed a new deal with FX. The new season will start shooting next year. As one of the biggest, buzziest TV hits of the year, ...