For roughly the first three decades of his career, Spielberg tended to take a fairly sanguine view of aliens, refusing to ...
Early cinema depicted aliens as human-like for familiarity and practical reasons, but modern science fiction explores ...
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With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination ...
Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life.
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Alien: Earth showrunner Noah Hawley clearly didn’t think the franchise was doing enough with the implications of its title. Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) imagined the kind of nightmare lifeforms ...