It's a question that has gone unanswered for centuries – what do aliens look like? The latest depiction of extraterrestrials is seen in the blockbuster hit 'Arrival', where they are portrayed as ...

The most chilling line in the new movie Arrival is: "We have a protocol for this." This would be the descent of 12 massive alien spacecraft from outer space, transgressing what is known about the ...

The following contains mild spoilers for Arrival. It’s no coincidence that the wave of science fiction films that emerged in the 1950s rode on a tide of post-war anxiety. The advent of the atom bomb, ...

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Arrival. In the 2016 movie Arrival, a ship of extraterrestrial beings lands on Earth with a unique purpose that is far different from what audiences might ...

In 1970, scientists identified a meteor-like object that had entered our Solar System. The US probe Mariner 10 was returning from an unrelated mission to photograph Saturn when it passed the object.

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind regarded its alien visitors with childlike awe. But what if our first contact with extraterrestrials proved so jarring, such a shock to our collective psyche, that ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter In the film – an adaptation of a short story by Ted Chiang, Story of Your Life – Earth is visited by extraterrestrials, known by ...

“Arrival” takes an age-old science fiction premise – Aliens have landed; what are their intentions? – and builds a taut mystery around it. Yet those expecting a whiz-bang film should be prepared for a ...

While Hollywood has made many science fiction stories about encounters between humans and aliens, the film Arrival by Denis Villeneuve is one of the few where a lone female protagonist makes first ...

Amy Adams stars in the hard-hitting sci-fi movie Arrival in which human weakness is laid bare While Hollywood has made many science fiction stories about encounters between humans and aliens, the film ...