A new study shows that stars with low magnetic activity are likely to support exoplanetary systems, making the hunt for these ...

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

Despite a concerning lack of updates since season 1 concluded, Alien: Earth is ready to begin shooting its second season in May, at a studio that's steeped in history for the franchise.

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 ...

Humans could have come from Mars, scientists have said. A study by Johns Hopkins University has found that alien microbes ...

Stellar plasma can smear alien radio signals before they escape their star system, making them harder for astronomers to detect.

And yet, while War Machines (or War Machine 2) may seem inevitable, there’s no way to turn this modern sci-fi action classic into a franchise without undermining what makes War Machine so great in the ...

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

A decade ago, Ridley Scott’s The Martian was released. With a script by ...

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 ...

Project Hail Mary, 2026. Directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller. Starring Ryan Gosling, James Ortiz, Sandra Hüller, Lionel Boyce, Ken Leung, Milana Vayntrub, Liz Kingsman, Orion Lee, Priya Kansara, ...

Emma Stone’s hard-faced corporate CEO has a lot of explaining to do when she is kidnapped by Jesse Plemons’s conspiracy kook. But in this film, asking whether someone is an alien seems an ordinary inq ...