With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself ...

Science fiction stories about “alien” invaders are often political allegories for anxieties around immigration. Now, a government website depicts non-citizens as extraterrestrials.

Theological debates suggest alien encounters might challenge religious traditionalists more than dismantle faith.

Speaking to Film International in 2004, "Alien" screenwriter Walter Hill revealed the secret of why he decided to name the ill-fated spaceship in the movie "Nostromo" (after the novel by Joseph Conrad ...