Movies about disasters—natural or human-made—have been produced since the earliest days of film. As early as 1916, a disaster with an extraterrestrial cause was touted in The End of the World, a ...

Since the beginning of time, humans have looked to the stars and wondered if we are alone in this universe. Science fiction ...

The spaceship in "District 9" is pictured. - Sony Pictures Releasing It's a big universe out there, and while we're all for exploring it, a specific subgenre of science fiction movies has hinted that ...

The 1970s were a golden age for cinema of the extraterrestrial variety. Ridley Scott's "Alien" turned the Xenomorph loose on a spaceship, while George Lucas' "Star Wars" introduced us to Wookies and ...

The night is dark; darker than usual. There's a warm breeze in the air, but otherwise nothing stirs save for a strange metallic object careening through the sky. As it moves, a soft glow follows, ...

The alien mothership makes contact with Earth in this scene from ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind.’ Columbia Pictures Amy Adams attempts to communicate with a cephalopod-like, seven-limbed alien ...

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