Every day, on nearly every ship cruising the world's oceans and lakes, millions of stowaways are hitching a lift. When set free at the end of their voyage, some set up home in their new surroundings - ...

Movies about disasters—natural or human-made—have been produced since the earliest days of film. As early as 1916, a disaster with an extraterrestrial cause was touted in The End of the World, a ...

Introduced species generally get a bad press – but not all alien invaders are villains, says Ken Thompson in Where Do Camels Belong? WE HAVE all heard a lot of bad stuff about introduced species: they ...

Revered filmmaker Steven Spielberg returns to sci-fi with his next movie, Disclosure Day. Ahead of the film's release, a first official look at alien invaders as seen in the movie has been revealed.

It's a big universe out there, and while we're all for exploring it, a specific subgenre of science fiction movies has hinted that it might be a bad idea. Alien invasion movies have come in droves ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time revolve around humans in a desperate struggle for survival. Sometimes we're ...

On June 24, 1947, the civilian pilot Kenneth Arnold reported seeing nine objects, glowing bright blue-white, flying in a “V” formation over Washington State’s Mount Rainier. He estimated their flight ...