In excellent news for anyone who believes in aliens and everyone who enjoyed the smouldering sexual tension between Mulder and Scully, it was announced today that the X-Files are coming back for a special six-episode ‘event series’.

The iconic series first aired 22 years ago in 1993, and spent the next 9 years and 202 episodes, cementing their place in pop-culture history.

David Duchovny took to Instagram to announce the much-anticipated reunion.

American television network, Fox, announced today that they've given the mini-series the go-ahead. There's no air-date yet, but production will commence in the next few months and Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny are both on board as Agent Dana Scully and Agent Fox Mulder respectively.

Since the X-Files ended over 13 years ago, spawning two spin-offs and two related movies, 54-year-old Duchovny most notably starred in TV show, Californication from 2007-2014. Anderson's latest role has been as Hannibal Lecter's psychotherapist in Hannibal.

To celebrate this momentous occasion, we've decided to compile the 8 reasons why we're excited they're coming back, you could even say the 8 reasons why we ... want to believe.

Before you click through the gallery below, hit play to get yourself in the X-Files zone.

Click through the gallery below. 

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1. The theme tune. Who could forget that "doo Doo doo Doo doo DOOOOO" ?

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2. The guest stars. Looking back now, the show had one of the best guest-star line-ups of all time. From Ryan Reynolds to Felicity Huffman, we can only imagine the stars lining up for the new season.

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3. The sexual tension between Mulder and Scully.

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4. We're more than ready for a bit of creepy television to be back on the silver screen. And a whole show about the unknown? The ultimate nightmare inducer.

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5. Agent Dana Scully. She was one of the strongest female characters on our screens during the '90s; she knew what she wanted and stood her ground.

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The X-Files came back.

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7. Conspiracy theories against the government. If there was one thing we learnt from the X-Files, it's the the government is not to be trusted. What about Area 51, eh?

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8. The Cliffhangers. The X-Files were the pioneers of the modern-day cliff hanger. They set the bar high with the first season's cliff hanger (in which Deep Throat was gunned down on a bridge) saving it from being the series final as ratings had been so low.