Science fiction often imagines alien civilizations so advanced they seem like gods, with powers that look supernatural to anyone beneath them. But this episode asks a darker and more fascinating ...

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about ...

The theory that aliens assisted the builders of ancient monuments was popularised by Swiss author Erich von Däniken in his ...

The "Alien" franchise does not, at first glance, feel like the kind of thing suited for the longform storytelling of television. It's a world whose greatest successes are built on high-concept hooks, ...

Aliens are a constant subject of curiosity for us humans. But this summer, the fascination that has fueled decades of science fiction soared back into headlines as the stuff of government proceedings.

It is not the least of this world’s wonders that it’s been nearly half a century since Ellen Ripley, in the person of Sigourney Weaver, sent the Alien, in the person of a person in an Alien suit, ...

For those uninitiated, the Alien film franchise (starting with 1979's Alien) centers on humans trying to survive an encounter with a fearsome alien species that is a certified killing machine, with ...

There have always been two kinds of monsters in the Alien franchise, each responsible for so much death. The first and most famous are Xenomorphs. But they have only killed so many people because of ...