We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Are we alone in the universe? It's a huge question with no easy answer. And, following on from that, if we aren't alone, what would beings ...

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 ...

Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds, starring Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning, is invading a new streaming platform in March. Find out more.

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...

"Invasion of the Body Snatchers," released 70 years ago Feb. 5, looked and sounded like any normal science-fiction movie. In reality — gasp — it was an imposter! Underneath the alien-invasion ...

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 it might be a bad idea. Alien invasion movies have come in droves ...