Our search for extraterrestrial life has turned up empty, perhaps because technologically advanced civilizations are doomed ...

Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred million light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of ...

Anyone familiar with the search for alien life will have heard of the "Goldilocks Zone" around a star. This is defined as the orbital band where the temperature is just right for liquid water to pool ...

If you examine our solar system’s giant planets, you’ll notice right away that they’ve all got moons—a lot of moons. While ...

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 ...

To support alien life, a planet doesn’t have to be exactly like Earth, but it does need a few key ingredients. First, it ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

This is the definitive ranking of the best alien invasion movies of all time. In between those bookends, Lifeforce is one of the wildest, most unique, most incredible science fiction movies almost ...

Following his and Bez's appearance at the Brits, The Happy Mondays/Black Grape leader talks drug madness, alien zoos and why ...

This is a hands-on preview of Aphelion to see how DON'T NOD tackles the sci-fi adventure genre.

For more than six decades, astronomers have listened for possible signals from extraterrestrial civilisations, with no confirmed detection to date. A .

Creating a believable alien world takes more than imagination. It requires biology, environmental logic, and evolutionary pressure. The Birrin ecosystem follows scientific rules every step of the way.