40 years later, James Cameron's Aliens still beats Ridley Scott’s original

The horror in space transforms into a riveting action epic.

It's disturbingly easy to trick AI into seeing aliens, say researchers

Are we alone in the universe? Consider mysterious "extraterrestrial" radio signals. Unexplained gases on other planets.
Opinion

The White House Turned "Alien" Into A Spectacle. That Is The Strategy.

The White House turned a legal term into a science-fiction spectacle. The real story is not the theatrics. It is how language moves an audience from watching to acting.
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'A lot to live up to': Aliens turns 40 & we chat to the VFX masters behind the Alien Queen

Legacy Effects' Oscar-nominated duo Shane Mahan and Lindsay MacGowan share tales from the trenches of 1986's 'Aliens' ...
Ars Technica

What if the aliens come and we just can’t communicate?

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...