The Marvel Universe wouldn't be as large and expansive without the alien worlds that populate it. All sorts of alien races exist, from the humanoid to incomprehensible creatures. Originally introduced ...

Heyyyy, it's spooky season… wait, what do you mean Halloween is over? Well, we don't care. Predator is back in theaters, Alien is good again, and we feel like getting our horror on, so let's look at ...

It's not just iconic characters like Kirk, Spock, and Janeway that have made "Star Trek" one of the best science fiction franchises of all time. It's also its memorable alien races like the Klingons, ...

A violent, almost demonic alien race called the Furies first appeared in a series of Star Trek crossover novels published in 1996. Titled Star Trek: Invasion!, these four novels spanned the 23rd and ...

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 ...

A slow start is overcome while learning about an extinct alien race that welcomed a savior. By Harold Goldberg Samus Aran, the science fiction protagonist in the Metroid series, is arguably Nintendo’s ...

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 ...