From the Greys to the Nordics, these aliens appear frequently across abduction stories and science fiction tales.

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

This video dives into the science behind Rocky, the fan-favorite alien from Project Hail Mary. Instead of being a human-shaped creature with makeup, Rocky is built from hard sci-fi logic: five legs, ...

Reading time 5 minutes If you look up “third act problems” in a film studies book, there should be a big picture of Ethan ...

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 ...

From a controversial Israeli film to Ryan Gosling in space - the cream of the cinematic crop at our year's halfway point ...

Los Angeles — Obsession is maybe too hard-edged; interest too soft. But from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "E.T" to his new sci-fi thriller "Disclosure Day," Steven Spielberg has spent ...

With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination with extraterrestrials.

Dystopian classics like Seconds, Threads, and Children of Men are among the bleakest science fiction movie masterpieces of ...

For whatever reason, I never reviewed the first season of "Sugar," which I'd stopped watching before its late-season big reveal — the detective (Colin Farrell as John Sugar) is an alien. Had that ...

The best films of the year so far include “Project Hail Mary,” “Disclosure Day” and “Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie.” ...