Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/FX Never smile at a crocodile… especially if that crocodile has two sets of teeth, acid blood, and a penchant for popping out of human ...

For as long as humans have looked up at the night sky, we've wondered who, or what, might be looking back. Journalist Becky Ferreira dives into this rich history in her new book "First Contact: The ...

The show is set two years before the events of the original Alien, and it tells the story of a world where corporations run Earth and everyone is competing to become immortal. In the midst of all this ...

After nine films, including sequels, prequels and spinoffs, and now Hulu’s Alien: Earth, the Alien franchise continues to ...

I forgot that TV shows are supposed to be good. I’ve spent the summer giddily excited for shows that I describe to other people as: “Yeah, I know it’s not, like, good, but I love these characters and ...

The following is an excerpt from First Contact: The Story of Our Obsession with Aliens, by Becky Ferreira. When you purchase products through the Bookshop.org link on this page, Science Friday earns a ...

When pilot Kenneth Arnold took off from Chehalis, Washington, in his single-engine airplane one afternoon in June 1947, he was looking for a lost military aircraft that had crashed. But what he found ...