Ridley Scott intended for Prometheus to be a completely separate tale from his horror classic Alien, but he also knows why ...

A unifying quality of the previous films in the Alien franchise is that they all focus on a “final girl,” a common hallmark of horror cinema. While Wendy might technically qualify for this description ...

Alien, Apocalypse Now, and All That Jazz are all among the very best movies of 1979 that can be called masterpieces.

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

Merch inspired by the Alien franchise is often hugely popular, something we were reminded of recently with the massive hype surrounding the Monster High Xenomorph doll. With that in mind, Funko has ...

The Alien universe has grown since our last log in 2023, and Nerdist’s Adam Murray is returning from his hypersleep chamber to bring you a new and expanded version of this sci-fi horror timeline.

Sigourney Weaver has shared some new thoughts about why Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5 never happened. Weaver played Ellen Ripley in Ridley Scott’s Alien, which was released in 1979. She then went on to ...

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...

The actress expressed her interest in a script penned by Walter Hill, calling it "a very different kind of 'Alien.'" Emlyn Travis is a news writer at Entertainment Weekly. She has been working at EW ...

Sigourney Weaver is considering reprising her role as Ripley in an upcoming 'Alien' installment. 20th Century Fox/Courtesy Everett Collection/Jason Mendez/Getty Images for ReedPop Nearly 30 years ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...