When astrobiologists are asked what aliens might look like, many now point not to distant galaxies but to some of the strangest corners of Earth, where researchers on several continents are using ...

For a long time, aliens in movies had something reassuringly familiar about them. Even when they arrived from distant galaxies, they tended to stand upright, speak (or at least gesture) like us, and ...

When movie sequels do mostly the same thing as the original, audiences tend not to like it. When a sequel gets bolder, like how Aliens took the universe in a bold new direction and became one of the ...