It is possible to visit this strange place of 'snotties', psychedelic stalactites and long abandoned artefacts ...

Scientists have identified an unexpected way to study the hidden space weather of distant stars by observing strange, ...

From bomb craters to spoil heaps, whaling stations to war zones, abandoned human landscapes are becoming unexpected ...

Alan Dean Foster is a name that is known throughout the Alien fandom. Responsible for the novelizations of Alien, Aliens & Alien 3, he declined to return to adapt Alien: Resurrection after the ...

Astronomers don’t search for life by seeing planets directly — they read the light that passes through their atmospheres.

During its original network run in the 1960s, Star Trek was famously saved from cancellation twice by fan letter-writing ...

After the cancellation of Neill Blomkamp 's planned film, and the box office underperformance of Ridley Scott 's Alien: ...

George R.R. Martin's forgotten sci-fi, from Wild Cards' virus-altered aces to Dying of the Light's rogue planet, ranked for ...

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a unique planet in another star system that’s shaped like a lemon. The lopsided Jupiter-style planet is so bizarre that it may blur the ...

Exoplanet TOI-561 b is the closest of four worlds orbiting a 10-billion-year-old G-type star roughly 280 light-years from Earth. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf Crawford illustration NASA’s James Webb ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has found the strongest evidence yet that a small, rocky planet outside our solar system has air, even though it orbits precariously close to its star. The exoplanet, ...

For the first time, scientists have directly detected molecules in a Frisbee of gas and dust swirling around an alien gas-giant planet. “I didn’t think this was possible,” says astronomer Sierra Grant ...