These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial life.

Brian Johnson, the special effects pioneer behind Space: 1999, Alien, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, and Aliens, has died.

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Our guide on the five best movies about aliens to stream on Netflix right now.

CGI can build entire planets now, but bigger does not always mean better. Some older movies still look incredible because their effects had texture and real-world messiness baked in. Models, ...

The 24-year-old actor — who plays one of the show's two adult Xenomorphs — had to film a fight scene with the CGI-generated creature, but he wasn't left completely in the dark. The Alien: Earth ...