Editor's note: The below contains spoilers for Alien: Earth Episodes 1 & 2. The Alien franchise has always been focused on the race for immortality, and Noah Hawley's perfect organism, the FX original ...

Historically, many scientists and society have been fascinated by the prospect of making contact with extraterrestrial ...

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Almost five years after its formal announcement, Alien: Earth – the franchise's first-ever TV series – is about to infect Hulu, FX, and Disney Plus. Ahead of its two-episode premiere, we've had the ...

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Researchers at SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) might be looking for the wrong thing, says one of SETI's astronomers in The Guardian. They're looking for aliens that are like us.