What We Know About The Engineers In The Alien Franchise Within the Alien franchise and universe conceived by Ridley Scott, the engineers, an ancient and technologically advanced extra-terrestrial species, play a significant role in the overarching mythology. First introduced in Scott’s 2012 science fiction film Prometheus and brought back in 2017’s Alien: Covenant, it’s revealed that the engineers are the creators of humanity. A band of explorers discover evidence of the engineers on a distant m

What would intelligent extraterrestrial life look like? First of all, it WON'T have claws. This all-star cast of scientists—E.O. Wilson, Michio Kaku, Bill Nye, and Jonathan B. Losos—explains what science has to say about alien biology, and what Hollywood depictions get wrong. | Big Think