Aristotle believed the planets revolved around Earth and God could not have created other worlds. Today, scientists scour the ...

A new study proposes detecting life in space by spotting patterns across many planets instead of focusing on one at a time.

A fictional theory created by H. P. Lovecraft ended up changing 2001: A Space Odyssey - and the world.

Behind the acid blood and jump scares of the Alien franchise is an even more insidious horror: a single employer with ...

For a long time, it was thought that this [technique] required telescopes in space,” says John Mather, the Nobel ...

Ridley Scott's 'Alien' began a horror franchise that centers around one woman's aim to defend the galaxy against space ...

If the government confirms nonhuman intelligence, psychological research offers clues about the range of ways humans might ...

Investor excitement around the SpaceX IPO is colliding with peak Elon Musk futurism after a new social media post featuring his musings about light-speed travel and exploring alien worlds. In a social ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising way to study the harsh space weather around young M dwarf stars. Mysterious dips in starlight turned out to be massive rings of plasma swirling in the stars’ ...

This artistic illustration shows the TRAPPIST-1 red dwarf star system, home to seven Earth-sized exoplanets, several of which lie within the star’s habitable zone. In the foreground is TRAPPIST-1 b, ...

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Planets orbiting stars beyond the solar system come in all shapes and sizes but mostly fit into a few categories: large and hot gas giants, super-Earths that are slightly larger than our planet, ...