This article contains spoilers for Alien: Earth through Episode 5, "In Space, No One…" Back when Alien: Earth premiered on FX and Hulu, all of three weeks ago, IGN's Clint Gage said in his review of ...

Legacy Effects' Oscar-nominated duo Shane Mahan and Lindsay MacGowan share tales from the trenches of 1986's 'Aliens' ...

Hybrid humans, corporate nation-state competitors, and xenomorph chat rooms: we’ve learned much since the USCSS Maginot went splat on New Siam in Alien: Earth Episode 1 (“Neverland”). We’re also ...

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A singular eyeball attached to slimy tentacles, the organism aggressively implants itself in a human or animal’s eye socket. It acts as a parasite by controlling its host’s actions, turning them into ...

Imagine a creature so tough that it can survive boiling heat, freezing cold, crushing pressure, and even the vacuum of outer space. No, this isn’t a sci-fi alien — it’s a real-life animal called the ...

Obsession is maybe too hard-edged; interest too soft. But from “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “E.T” to his new sci-fi thriller “Disclosure Day,” Steven Spielberg has spent nearly the entire ...

Among the many strange biological wonders Charles Darwin observed in his time, one haunted him above all. “‘The eye, to this day, gives me a cold shudder,” he admitted in a letter to an American ...

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, ...

With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination with extraterrestrials.