For thousands of years, humanity has looked up at the stars asking the same question. Are we alone? Then one day, it finally ...

Are we alone in the universe? Consider mysterious "extraterrestrial" radio signals. Unexplained gases on other planets.

In virtual experiments, AI repeatedly misread dead digital organisms as self-replicating life.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first episode opens with a familiar scenario. We witness a research ship in deep space carrying unknown alien organisms ...

The TV series Alien:Earth has introduced a number of new creatures to the much loved, albeit terrifying, Alien franchise. But how realistic are the new aliens? That's a question that we—a trio of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/FX The nightmarish xenomorph, with its piston-like inner jaw and blood ...

The story of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and the European Space Agency's Philae spacecraft just got a whole hell of a lot more interesting. After a semi-botched landing resulting in the spacecraft ...

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself resurfaces: if aliens were to arrive on Earth, would they come to conquer us, ...

The best part of making a new Alien movie or TV show has got to be the chance to create a new branch of the Xenomorph family tree. At this point, it's also practically a rite of passage for the ...

I’m of the firm belief that you can never have enough video games based on the humble ol’ Xenomorph. While it’s true that the batting average for such adaptations has been all over the place, with the ...

The first episode opens with a familiar scenario. We witness a research ship in deep space carrying unknown alien organisms suddenly having an outbreak, with the aliens killing most of the crew. But ...

With Alien: Earth, Noah Hawley expands the universe of the cinematic franchise in new ways. Read our spoiler-free review of season one. The Alien franchise has been terrifying audiences since 1979.