It's an incredibly rare feat for a movie to spawn a franchise that can remain healthy more than four decades after it premieres.

Aliens have been making headlines thanks to former US President Barack Obama’s remark in a podcast interview that they were “real but I haven’t seen them.” On Radio 4’s flagship new programme Today, ...

The curious minds at What If imagine crashing on an alien planet far away, exploring survival, alien ecosystems, and the challenges of life on a distant world. Study of 27.8M Americans may have ...

Liquid water might not need a perfect location to exist, and neither might alien life. Researchers now believe that planets well outside the so-called Goldilocks zone could still host habitable ...

The race to compile a sort of catalogue of the planets orbiting distant Suns is intensifying, with the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, for instance, set to spot tens of thousands of such ...

There might be many more planets that could be home to aliens than we thought, according to a new study. For years, scientists have searched for life in the “habitable” or “goldilocks” zone – where it ...

Sequelitis is a serious problem in the world of cinema. When a masterpiece is made, the executives are eager to capture that lightning in a bottle a second time. That leads to sequels that must be ...

Part of what makes some classics worthy of such a title is the ingenuity and borderline movie magic they employ to tell their story. In the case of "Alien," for example, director Ridley Scott used ...

In today’s complex financial environment, governments need to juggle any number of security threats while keeping the global markets functioning smoothly. From AI attacks to widespread civil war, ...

Elon Musk discussed his views on whether aliens exist during a discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Newsweek reached out to Musk’s company SpaceX for additional comment via ...