The new Alien film has enraged many with the re-appearance of an actor from the 1979 original – brought back from the dead using digital trickery. Is such anger justified? The latest film in the Alien ...

Complex organic molecules capable of serving as building blocks for alien life are more prevalent than previously thought in cold gas clouds and dust that create stars and planets, researchers at the ...

HUMANS have come a step closer to finding aliens after the “building blocks for life” were discovered by scientists on an asteroid. NASA’s Osiris Rex spacecraft had grabbed parts of the ancient Bennu ...

Cailee Spaeny stars in a shocker that goes back to the franchise’s first principles – with extravagantly scary, and revolting, results Robbie Collin has been a film critic for 20 years, during which ...

Fede Álvarez’s effort is scrappier than Ridley Scott’s grandiose efforts – but everyone involved would have been better employed working on something new Fede Álvarez’s new instalment in the Alien ...

This post contains major spoilers for Alien: Romulus. To our surprise, Rook has the exact same face and voice as Ash. Well, more accurately, he has the face of the late Ian Holm, who’s credited with ...

Since the first two films in the 1980s, the sci-fi horror series has been a very mixed bag. But this latest gets back to basics, and makes for a superbly scary monster movie. There have already been ...

Astronomers have detected the complex organic molecules that form the 'building blocks for life' in a distant infant star system. The discovery once again shows that the conditions that led to the ...

The Alien franchise has, let’s face it, been struggling for life for decades. Prequels like Prometheus and Alien: Covenant and the much-maligned Alien vs. Predator hybrid films have given us nowhere ...

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