Alien was the first big foray into sci-fi horror, inspiring an entire genre to walk in its footsteps.

It didn’t take long for stories about extraterrestrials to reach our cinemas. George Méliès “A Trip to the Moon” introduced weird, easily explodable aliens called Selenites that capture the first ...

There are quite a few things that make Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s Project Hail Mary work as well as it does. It’s a streamlining of Andy Weir’s book that keeps in everything necessary, it’s ...

Humanity's ideas about alien existence often say more about us than the little green men we envision. Our conception of life beyond Earth reflects our collective hopes and fears about technology and ...

In the 1950s, a down-on-her-luck high schooler with no prom date sees her stars align when an alien descends from the cosmos to sweep her off her feet.

Don’t expect a straightforward timeline, because continuity is a mess with the Alien and Predator timelines (even if, as in this list, you choose to ignore tie-in comics, novels, and games). Predator: ...