Alien: Earth season 1 timeline. - Aliens and Predators Fans Zone

Last updated on May 23rd, 2026 at 11:16 pm

The first season of Noah Hawley’s series Alien: Earth takes place primarily in the year 2120, positioning it exactly two years before the events of the original 1979 film Alien. This precise placement creates a crucial narrative bridge within the franchise’s lore, functioning as an official prequel to the journey of the Nostromo.

The Chronological Breakdown

To understand how Season 1 fits into the broader universe, it helps to look at the chronological sequence of major events leading up to and trailing the series:

2089–2093 (Prometheus): Humanity’s first deep-space contact with the Engineers.
2104 (Alien: Covenant): The colony ship Covenant encounters David’s experiments 16 years before the series.
2120 (Alien: Earth Season 1): A Weyland-Yutani vessel, the USCSS Maginot, crashes down into Prodigy City on Earth.
2122 (Alien): Ellen Ripley and the crew of the Nostromo are redirected to LV-426.
2142 (Alien: Romulus): Events take place 22 years after the Earth outbreak.
2179 (Aliens): Ripley awakens after 57 years of hypersleep.

The 65-Year Flight Mystery

A key piece of the Season 1 puzzle lies in the history of the USCSS Maginot. While the story on the ground unfolds in 2120, the ship itself was dispatched on a 65-year deep-space retrieval mission long before the season begins. Its awakening and subsequent crash landing introduce the Xenomorph threat directly to Earth’s mega-corporate ecosystem.

Corporate Control and Lore Shifts

The timeline of Alien: Earth reshapes our understanding of corporate greed in the franchise. Rather than showcasing a completely unified galactic empire, Season 1 focuses on the intense, operational corporate warfare between “The Five” megacorporations that rule Earth. It establishes that Weyland-Yutani was actively manipulating and hunting these deadly lifeforms on Earth decades before public colonizations began, forcing fans to re-evaluate the corporate ignorance claimed in later sequels.

Alien: Earth episodes and release dates

Alien: Earth season 1 will span a total of 8 hours – spanning 8, 1 hour-long episodes. Below is a list of episode titles and their streaming release dates.

“Neverland” (Release Date: August 13th)
“Mr. October” (Release Date:August 13th)
“Metamorphosis” (Release Date: August 20th)
“Observation” (Release Date:August 27th)”Emergence” (Release Date: September 3rd)
“The Fly” (Release Date: September 10th)

“In Space, No One” (Release Date: September 17th)
“The Real Monsters” (Release Date: September 24th)

The series features different alien species

On Alien Day 2025, official channels for Alien: Earth released an exciting teaser which revealed the USCSS Maginot had collected 5 different, uniquely deadly alien species from the darkest corners of the universe. The Xenomorph is only one of five.