Ridley Scott intended for Prometheus to be a completely separate tale from his horror classic Alien, but he also knows why fans didn't connect with it.

Notably, the entire Alien franchise is enjoying a renaissance on streaming platforms. Alien: Romulus (2024) has been performing strongly on Prime Video. Meanwhile, 2017’s Alien: Covenant, Scott’s ...

Few directors can say they’ve had the same impact on the sci-fi genre as Ridley Scott. Scott first rose to popularity as a director in 1979 with his work on Alien, the genre-defining sci-fi horror ...

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, ...

At Davos, the billionaire said his belief that “it might only be us” in the cosmos drives Tesla, SpaceX, and his vision for humanity’s future. Elon Musk proclaimed he’s an alien during a Thursday ...

There’s no denying the allure of alien artifacts. Science fiction is awash in the material remnants of extraterrestrial civilizations, which surface in everything from the classic books of Arthur C.

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to prepare us for eventual contact with aliens. Their efforts are dominated by several recurrent tropes. There's the invasion by a warlike ...

With a great sci-fi adventure comes great expectations from the audience. Filmmakers working within the genre have long relied on a core set of tried-and-true “rules” to keep sprawling ideas in check ...

‘Alien: Earth’ will return for a second season. Creator Noah Hawley has signed a new deal with FX. The new season will start shooting next year. As one of the biggest, buzziest TV hits of the year, ...

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...