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Have a spare 20 minutes on your lunch break and need something to do other than doomscrolling? Well, in 2017, Sigourney Weaver starred in a sci-fi short, directed by Neill Blomkamp ("District 9," ...

You can find the full list of every new release below – and a list of everything being removed from Netflix this month here. NB: The Independent put this list together with help from What’s on Netflix ...

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, ...

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 ...

When I look at the night sky, I don’t wonder whether alien life is somewhere out there; I think it probably is. Considering the sheer number of stars in the cosmos, and the possibly larger number of ...

Alien first-contact stories are a classic of science fiction, and they're all the more fascinating because they can feel like predictions of a possible future. Real scientists all over the world are ...

Sega and Creative Assembly have finally officially revealed Alien: Isolation 2 with a new trailer at Summer Game Fest 2026. While the trailer stops short of announcing a release date or even a release ...

Famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson joins Saturday TODAY to chat about this new book “Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter” and reveals who he thinks aliens should ...