These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial life.

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Ever since H.G. Wells released "War of the Worlds" in 1898, popular culture has been fascinated by alien invasion stories. For over a century, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The second installment in the Alien film franchise, 1986's Aliens, has been continuously acclaimed by critics and praised by ...

FX and Hulu's Alien: Earth is returning for a second season, and it has a chance to finally fulfill one of Ridley Scott's plans for the original Alien 47 years after the fact. The ending of the ...

The second installment in the Alien film franchise, 1986's Aliens, has been continuously acclaimed by critics and praised by audiences. "It was all hydraulics and puppetry. There were two guys inside ...

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 ...