With 'Project Hail Mary' opening in theaters, here are several essential films that explore the strange, high-stakes experience of being stranded in outer space.

Ryan Gosling anchors Project Hail Mary, a visually striking, character-focused sci-fi about an unlikely alien friendship that shines despite some rushed late-film science.

The critically acclaimed sci-fi movie District 9 will be leaving Netflix‘s content library next month. Produced by Peter Jackson, the movie is set in an alternate world, showcasing the story of an alien race stranded on Earth and forced to live in segregation.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Setting a movie in outer space opens up an endless realm of possibilities. Franchises like Star Trek use it to explore hopeful what-ifs. Star Wars uses it as a background for high ...

In Ridley Scott’s ALIEN, the audience isn’t introduced to the Xenomorph right off the bat, but to the glorious Nostromo travelling through space. Utilizing industrial scrap and

The Alien franchise is one of the most iconic and enduring in all of sci-fi cinema, even if not every entry is a classic. The original Ridley Scott movie was essentially greenlit only because the studio saw the success of Star Wars and wanted to get a ...

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 Danish film about a passing comet causing chaos and ...