The first unmistakable sign of extraterrestrial technology may not arrive as a calm greeting. It may look more like a flare.

For all his proclaimed genius, Prodigy CEO Boy Kavalier (Samuel Blenkin) failed to account for the probability that his Hybrid creation, Wendy (Sydney Chandler), would turn on him. Many “Alien: Earth” ...

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...