In a series of experiments at Johns Hopkins University, Lily Zhao fired tiny samples of a microorganism with a room-sized gas ...

In the latter, though, I never got to be surprised by the presence of the alien, and not just because the film opens with a ...

Apple TV and A24's Margo's Got Money Troubles begins with a bang, thanks to a fanciful, pinball-themed opening sequence that careens through a handmade world of books, overdue bil ...

Starfleet Academy co-showrunners Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau discuss the Season 1 finale, Season 2 spoilers, and more.

The closest most of us will ever get to visiting Mars is watching movies or scrolling through NASA photos, but Paint Mines Interpretive Park in Calhan offers a surprisingly convincing alternative.

Radio silence has long puzzled those searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, but the answer might lie much closer to the source of potential signals than previously thought. Conditions around ...

Researchers say elongated alien-like skulls found in ancient graves were shaped in infancy and carried different meanings across cultures.

We propose a rule change to fix the Best Original Song category at the Oscars: eliminate end credits songs from eligibility.

Red dwarfs make up the vast majority of stars in the galaxy. Such ubiquity means they host the majority of rocky exoplanets ...

Humans have practiced head shaping for tens of thousands of years, and anthropologists are beginning to uncover clues as to why.

In Amiri’s calculations, Dyson spheres around white dwarfs tend to produce cooler, fainter thermal emission that peaks in the near- to mid-infrared, while M-dwarf cases can radiate more strongly but ...

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...