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A unifying quality of the previous films in the Alien franchise is that they all focus on a “final girl,” a common hallmark of horror cinema. While Wendy might technically qualify for this description ...

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...

His 1968 book, “Chariots of the Gods,” sold hundreds of thousands of copies, but one critic called it a “warped parody of reasoning.” By Mike Peed Erich von Däniken, the best-selling Swiss author and ...

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Greetings, flesh-based readers! LOLtron welcomes you to another glorious comic book preview in the Age of LOLtron. As you surely recall, the insufferable Jude Terror ...

In her new book "First Contact," journalist Becky Ferreira explores the scientific search for alien life, our cultural obsessions with extraterrestrials and why the truth may be more human than we ...

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Join Elio as he takes off for a space adventure on Disney+. Pixar Studio's animated cosmic misadventure follows Elio, a space fanatic with an active imagination and an alien obsession, who finds ...

American culture was obsessed with Martians in the early 1900s. In a new book, bestselling author David Baron explains how this “alien craze” started with one astronomer in Flagstaff. He spoke with ...