Making a sequel to Ridley Scott's 1979 classic "Alien" should have been a disaster. This was a movie that defined a whole new sub-genre of outer-space horror, a perfectly structured scarefest that ...

Forty years ago today, on July 18, 1986, 20th Century Fox put a sequel into American theaters that had no business working. It opened at No. 1, stayed there for a month, and has landed on essentially ...

Humanity's ideas about alien existence often say more about us than the little green men we envision. Our conception of life beyond Earth reflects our collective hopes and fears about technology and ...