This is the second of three feature articles Ars is publishing to explore the financial, technical, and competitive ...

Star Trek can usually make rubber forehead aliens not just cool, but turn them into pop culture icons. Their five worst ...

The Alienware AW3426DW is Alienware's latest high-end ultrawide gaming monitor, and it's actually less expensive than you'd expect for a display this nice.

A Soviet astronomer in the 1960s proposed a scale to classify hypothetical alien civilizations. Here’s why the framework is ...

"There’s stardust and carbon in our veins," the event's organizer, Gary Adrian Randall, says. "We're cosmic beings ... we're ...

When Gene Roddenberry created "Star Trek" in the 1960s, he instituted several rules for starship design that are still ...

Left to Right: Steven Yeun in "Nope," the alien in Steven Spielberg's "E.T." and Scarlett Johansson in "Under the Skin" (Universal Pictures / A24) It didn’t take long for stories about ...

How Andy Nicholson and Jonathan Rothbart mixed the old with the new for FX's big-budget horror series "Alien: Earth" ...

Among the most tantalizing reveals from Summer Game Fest 2026 was a more in-depth look at the upcoming Alien: Isolation 2. First announced in 2024, the sequel to Creative Assembly’s 2014 survival ...

Creative Assembly and Sega have screened the first proper trailer for Alien: Isolation 2, confirming in the process that the new xenomorph horror game is set on a planet. A planet of windy trees, ...

Dropping a tribute to Ridley Scott’s 1979 “Alien” halfway through his franchise-expanding series wasn’t easy. But Noah Hawley just had to do it. “The show was already a huge lift, and then to sort of ...