The "Star Trek" phaser sound, iconic in its own right, has its origins in a sci-fi horror classic that helped define the ...

That special linguistic connection between a stone-skinned alien and the reluctant astronaut Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) was ...

Searching for alien languages sheds light on how much human languages have in common—with each other and even with animal ...

Alien creatures may feel like pure fiction, but some of their most disturbing traits already exist in nature. Parasitic lifeforms, genetic manipulation, and extreme survival strategies can be found on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An alien-like Mola mola surprised surfers as it surfaced along the San Diego coastline, ultimately dying and washing ashore. “A ...

As movies that diagnose the modern condition go, you can't do much better than Yorgos Lanthimos' Bugonia. Lanthimos has always been cold and caustic, proffering oddball metaphors for the absurd state ...

FX’s Alien: Earth closed out its first season with a finale that was as unsettling as it was interesting. Showrunner Noah Hawley has expanded the franchise beyond simple survival horror into something ...

“He likes the sheep,” Samuel Blenkin tells Polygon. “He thinks the sheep's kind of cool.” For Blenkin, who plays the petulant trillionaire genius Boy Kavalier, the sheep was also an excellent scene ...

Editor's note: The below contains spoilers for Alien: Earth Episode 4. When Ridley Scott's Prometheus came out in 2012, many fans were disappointed by the lack of xenomorphs. Scott aimed to fix that ...

One of the alien creatures brought to Earth in the crashed USCSS Maginot is an eye-like creature with tentacles dubbed the T. Ocellus. This creature was creepy to begin with, but Alien: Earth gave us ...

The best part of making a new Alien movie or TV show has got to be the chance to create a new branch of the Xenomorph family tree. At this point, it's also practically a rite of passage for the ...