Welcome to Horror Explorer, a curated column showcasing the month’s best movies, series, books and everything else spooky worth checking out. I’m , Variety‘s executive digital director and the ...

Crystal clouds on a distant world may shimmer like sun dogs, hinting at exotic optics shaped by heat, wind, and starlight.

Casey Chong with a selection of bad E.T. ripoffs ranked from worst to watchable… The year 1982 may have given us hits like ...

In space, you don’t just have xenomorphs to worry about anymore. FX’s new series Alien: Earth — premiering Tuesday, Aug. 12 — ...

British scientist Stephen Hawking was publicly adverse to sending messages into space to attract aliens, with comments ...

An alien visits Earth in search of water for his dying planet and falls victim to his hosts, becoming seduced by the industrial empire he creates to fund the building of a spaceship to return home.

Time to answer the next Buzzword in Cookie Jam. If you are looking how “Inhabitants of planet Earth are called,” you are in ...

Earth less than two weeks away, the marketing has been ramping up, as well as the releases of previous interviews with the ...

The Xenomorphs return in Aliens vs Avengers, killing everything in their path. Earth’s mightiest heroes fall one by one.

NASA is plotting a new mission that could be the one to finally uncover alien life in the universe. Or, it may uncover a darker fact: that we humans are completely alone, on the unique oasis we ...

The JUICE spacecraft tested its RIME instrument over the iconic Anders’ Earthrise crater to improve radar accuracy for ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has cowritten a research paper speculating whether the comet 3I/ATLAS is in fact "hostile" ...