By examining the potential existence of Dyson spheres, a University of Glasgow scientist aims to guide the search for alien ...

Quite a bit of movie magic made "Alien" the sci-fi horror classic it is -- but one of its biggest challenges was solved with ...

The creators of the Alien franchise probably have no shortage of ideas for where the series should go, but here are some more ...

Sigourney Weaver has given an update regarding her return to the Alien franchise. Weaver is known for playing Ellen Ripley in the Alien franchise, with the character having appeared in 1979’s Alien, ...

Don’t expect a straightforward timeline, because continuity is a mess with the Alien and Predator timelines (even if, as in this list, you choose to ignore tie-in comics, novels, and games). Predator: ...

If I had a nickel for every film that fell through in Hollywood, I’d be as rich as those jerks at Weyland Yutani. Thus was the case for District 9 director Neill Blomkamp’s once highly anticipated ...

Predator: Badlands is now in theaters, and while Dan Trachtenberg's Prey follow-up doesn't feature any direct connections to or crossovers with the Alien franchise - beyond the Weyland-Yutani ...

Ever since the release of the original Ridley Scott-directed 1979 film, Alien has felt like an expansive universe full of potential. Even before it was a franchise in its own right, even just that ...

Pam's Colecovision was her babysitter, from the age of 4 or 5, but the family only had one game. Over and over, hour after hour, she'd climb and jump through the three levels of Donkey Kong. But the ...

Prometheus, the “prequel” to Alien (1979), is about the crew members of an exploratory vessel of the same name. The crew, headed by Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace, the original Girl with the Dragon ...

Sydney Chandler had terrible eyesight as a child. The 29-year-old star of Alien: Earth (and daughter of Kyle Chandler) grew up with severe vision impairment that was eventually corrected through ...

Fiction, by its very definition, isn't real. A character can have an entire lifetime of backstory, the politics and geography of their made-up homeworld a matter of record, but none of it would exist ...