On a film set, the primary, camera-ready version of a car is called the hero vehicle. It doesn’t necessarily mean the movie’s hero is going to drive it. But in Aliens, she did. The M577 Armored ...

A Yaetuan colony on Agda, an Earth-sized world eight light-years away, appears promising until a solar flare destroys its power supply. A distress signal is sent, but the distances between settled ...