For your extraterrestrial viewing needs, Stacker ranked the top 30 alien movies, according to their IMDb user rating.

For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to prepare us for eventual contact with aliens. Their efforts are dominated by several recurrent tropes. There's the invasion by a warlike ...

Alleged alien bodies from four different species have reportedly been recovered from downed spacecraft and are now in US government custody, according to claims made by defence scientist Hal Puthoff ...

Anja Djuricic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1992. Her first interest in film started very early, as she learned to speak English by watching Disney animated movies (and many, many reruns). Anja ...

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Devils Tower, Wyoming (CNN) — The buzz started in a hay meadow at the foot of a mysterious-looking geological formation. Helicopters and trailers arrived in large numbers, famous faces and a ...

— the first sentence in Neil deGrasse Tyson’s 2026 book, ‘Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter’. About two-thirds of the way through an entertaining book by noted ...

Kicking things off, we’ve chosen a baseline for these opening encounters. Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind represents how most people hope a real-life alien encounter will go down ...

The so-called ticks are not the only extraterrestrial bugs appearing on Alien: Earth. We’ve also got a nest of flies, which seems to live inside a hornet’s nest from our own world. We don’t know much ...

Forrest Galante will introduce Shark Week 2026 viewers to the sharks of the U.S. in “Alien Sharks: Untamed America” Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013 ...