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Resolve to read more books in 2026—and start right here with io9’s first list of the year rounding up all the new sci-fi, ...

On December 12, 2025, Insider Gaming revealed that a previously believed canceled Alien game is back in development, and it’ll feature Ripley 8 as one of its characters. The as-yet-untitled entry in ...

During her recent appearance at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea International Film Festival, The Defenders star noted that no member of the Alien team expected the 1979 movie to have such an impact on the ...

Case in point: James Cameron’s Aliens took a sharp turn from Ridley Scott’s original film, changing the tone from a sci-fi/horror nightmare to an action-horror thrill ride. Cameron was clearly ...

Astronomers have found what could become the first target for a crucial test of NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a soon-to-launch observatory that serves as a pathfinder mission for ...

Matt Dinniman introduced his series about an alien reality TV show free on the web. But readers ate up the goofy humor, now to the tune of 6 million books sold. By Alexandra Alter Alexandra Alter ...

Alien invasion stories are among the earliest science fiction in the Western canon—they not only explore the strange and unknown but also heighten the stakes by bringing danger inside human ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

As reading declines, fragments of the literary past float to the cultural surface like corpses after a shipwreck. Complex thought survives in a motto: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” ...

Is there an Outer SpaceX? With 3I/ATLAS set to fly by Earth in just over a week, experts continue to speculate over its origins. Harvard Scientist Avi Loeb believes that if aliens, the comet wouldn’t ...

The phrase “Time is a flat circle” often refers to how the manic post-pandemic news cycle makes comprehension of the recent past impossible. A similarly dazed bafflement is explored in W. David Marx’s ...