EXCLUSIVE: A new documentary is resurrecting the story of 1995's elaborate alien autopsy hoax. Former Mirror photographer Mike Maloney's testimony blows the UFO debate wide open

As I found while working on my own novel, writing about aliens can be strangely helpful in this pursuit. Just as astronomers use telescopes to examine celestial objects light-years away, novelists can invoke imagined civilizations to reveal truths closer to home,

Is Disclosure Day cringeworthy or am I just dead inside? - COMMENT: Steven Spielberg’s alien conspiracy thriller looks great and boasts a dazzling Emily Blunt performance… but are its final 40 minutes really meant to be so goofy?

We're disclosing what Steven Spielberg, Demi Lovato, Tom Cruise and more celebrities have said about the possibility that the people of Earth aren't alone in this universe.

Maybe we did not create life in the biological sense, but maybe we created something stranger: an alien form of intelligence.​

For roughly the first three decades of his career, Spielberg tended to take a fairly sanguine view of aliens, refusing to succumb to the disaster-movie framework of aliens attacking terrified Earthlings. That changed in a big way after 9/11, when Spielberg made a couple of Tom Cruise -starring sci-fi blockbusters grappling with a changed world.

With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination with extraterrestrials.

Alien: Isolation 2 feels incredibly similar to its predecessor, but there's room for surprises in the great outdoors.