Since the beginning of time, humans have looked to the stars and wondered if we are alone in this universe. Science fiction has allowed us to explore the possibilities that we may not be, telling ...

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 ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Ever since H.G. Wells released "War of the Worlds" in 1898, popular culture has been fascinated by alien invasion stories. For over a century, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time revolve around humans in a desperate struggle for survival. Sometimes we're ...

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, ...

This story first appeared in Trying!, a thoughtful, funny, wide-ranging daily newsletter featuring essays from the mind of Matt Gross. You can sign up for them here. Those were simple aliens for ...

Joaquin Phoenix, Abigail Breslin, and Rory Culkin sit on a couch watching TV with tin foil hats on in Signs. Image via Buena Vista Pictures Distribution M. Night Shyamalan is most notoriously known ...