While John Boyega rose to fame with "Star Wars," it wasn't his first time fighting aliens. He previously starred in this ...

It didn’t take long for stories about extraterrestrials to reach our cinemas. George Méliès “A Trip to the Moon” introduced weird, easily explodable aliens called Selenites that capture the first ...

The 1970s were a golden age for cinema of the extraterrestrial variety. Ridley Scott's "Alien" turned the Xenomorph loose on a spaceship, while George Lucas' "Star Wars" introduced us to Wookies and ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Happy Alien Day! And no, not for any supposed extraterrestrial beings watching from the shadows of our solar system, but for the ...