The Alien: Earth timeline can feel like a chest‑burster of continuity. This timeline guide maps the films and the franchise’s first TV series by in‑universe “Alien years,” clarifying where each entry lands relative to Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic.

How Alien: Earth Anchors the Timeline

Creator Noah Hawley set out to present the Xenomorphs “within a larger ecosystem” and, for the first time, put them on Earth. The series is set in Alien year 2120 , two years before the Nostromo incident of Alien . It features rival corporations — including Weyland‑Yutani — grappling for control after a spaceship crash‑lands on Earth carrying valuable (and dangerous) cargo. As Hawley noted, “We haven’t literally calendared it out,” calling Earth a “grey area” and a “gift… with very little mytholo

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