Many of the most memorable Star Trekaliens debuted on the TV shows, but a handful of classic alien races made their first appearance in the movies. Airing its first episode in 1966, Star Trek: The ...

Kicking things off, we’ve chosen a baseline for these opening encounters. Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind represents how most people hope a real-life alien encounter will go down ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Travis Bean writes about the best movies available to stream. That’s why I set out to rank the best alien and space movies ever.

To understand this new power, you first have to get to grips with the distant future of the Star Trek timeline. The 31st and 32nd centuries were a tragic time, with a mysterious cosmic event called ...

With tons of "Star Trek" alien races depicted over the decades, consistency is a tall order. And in the case of these aliens, major changes went unexplained.

Cosmic Encounter is a masterclass in board game design. One of the most enjoyable and varied board games that money can buy, the rules are simple and elegant, but thanks to the huge menagerie of alien ...

The Pilot is the mummified alien found in the driver's seat of the abandoned ship found in the first Alien movie. There was no way for the crew of the USCSS Nostromo to know exactly how long the alien ...