Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the universe in a completely different way than we do. Physicist Daniel Whiteson exp ...

Predator: Badlands is debuting with the genuine novelty of making a Yautja hunter into its hero, namely a Yautja known as Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi). Dek is a warrior looked down up by his ...

When we imagine alien life, we picture monsters, insects, or tentacles—but what if the most realistic aliens are human-like? Evolution tends to solve the same problems with similar designs, and ...

Most modern science fiction works don't portray human-alien interaction well. An example of this is 2012’s "Prometheus," which had a nightmare of a plot that was simply an accessory to over-the-top ...

The "Alien" franchise does not, at first glance, feel like the kind of thing suited for the longform storytelling of television. It's a world whose greatest successes are built on high-concept hooks, ...

It’s hard to fathom that a franchise as storied as Alien hasn’t been guided by some stalwart producer with long-term plans to turn it into an inexhaustible goldmine. But, when looking at series ...