HG Wells fans have slammed a new Royal Mint £2 coin celebrating the science-fiction writer for an apparent litany of errors, including adding a leg to his “monstrous tripods” that invaded Earth in his ...

One of the most bizarre yet stunning towers in the UK stands strong in the Thames Estuary as they were built to protect Britain from German air raids during World War Two. The Maunsell Sea Forts in ...

From the moment they show up, the alien tripods in Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds absolutely wreck shop. In the film's first encounter scene, a lone tripod slaughters dozens of helpless humans, ...

Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds (2005) follows single father Ray Ferrier’s desperate attempt to usher his two children to safety as their city is plagued by hostile newcomers in the alien ...

In this web-only original short, we imagine what would happen if a 1,000-foot-tall alien tripod faced off with an F-15 fighter jet. Would the aircraft's state-of-the-art missiles be any match for this ...

Are we alone in space? Could aliens exist? People have asked these questions for hundreds of years and there are countless stories and films about space ships, UFOs and extra-terrestrials. A new ...