Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TV has taught us many important lessons about aliens. They are either here to observe us, replace us, eat our cats, or gently ...

Whenever Steven Spielberg looks to the skies and ponders whether intelligent life is lurking out there in the cosmos, we tend to get a cinematic classic. "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "E.T.

In these science fiction books, extraterrestrial beings are sympathetic, horrifying and everything in between.

Don't they have something to do ? Even if there were any other life forms in the universe, the distance is far to great to make observation/communication likely. I ...