Alec Gillis is a name that is as synonymous with the creature effects of the Predator and Alien series as the creators ...

Planets that once lived only in pulp novels and movie concept art are now turning up in real data. Astronomers are not just ...

Among the works were a soundscape composed by David Lynch for “Twin Peaks: The Return” (it involved a lot of white noise; I ...

If aliens from space can die and mourn their dead then they likely invented gods to worship. Because they missed their loved ...

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

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. - NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf Crawford illustration NASA’s James Webb Space ...

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 ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made the first 3D map of an alien planet's atmosphere, revealing extreme temperature swings on the exoplanet WASP-18b. When you purchase through ...