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For 45 years, the Alien movie franchise has seen the Xenomorphs terrorize poor groups of humans on various spaceships and planets (most recently in the 2024 movie Alien: Romulus), but now the iconic ...

It’s been a few years since FX announced plans to collaborate with Fargo‘s Noah Hawley on an Alien television series, but as we look ahead to the future, the project’s arrival is closer than ...

which are very short and very powerful blasts energy coming from deep in space. Possible explanations have included everything from black holes to alien technology. Researchers hope to be able to ...

The sequel to Alien: Romulus could be bringing back the franchise’s most famous character in an unexpected way, as Ellen Ripley is rumored to appear in the film. Industry insider Daniel Richtman ...

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A decade ago humanity launched around 200 objects into space per year. Now we launch more than 2,600, with no prospects for slowing down. This rapid expansion of human activity in outer space has ...

A vast alien planet has blistering winds racing around its equator at nearly 30 times the speed of sound on Earth. Lisa Nortmann at the University of Göttingen, Germany, and her colleagues used ...

Ridley Scott’s Alien is an awesome sci-fi horror movie that has been entertaining ... this theme of corporate greed manifested through Ash owed much to the legacy of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space ...

We first sent out radio signals into space around 120 years ago, so even if an intelligent alien was listening and immediately replied, they would have to be within 60 light years of Earth for us ...

In a scene reminiscent of a sci-fi thriller, a group of Thai villagers were sent running for the hills after stumbling upon what they believed to be the lifeless remains of a dead alien. But once ...