Ridley Scott backed an ambitious HBO sci-fi drama that ended far too early. Here's why the sudden cancellation still stings years later for fans.

Theoretically, it’s impossible for us to perceive a 4D creature. That is, unless it broke into our three-dimensional reality.

An experiment mimicking conditions on the Saturn moon suggests that cell-like bubbles don’t form in methane lakes, puncturing hopes for alien life.

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller turn Bay Area author Andy Weir's novel "Project Hail Mary" into a terrific science fiction popcorn movie.

Alien: Earth's first season was largely filmed in Thailand, but the upcoming season will reportedly be produced at Pinewood Studios in the United Kingdom.

E.T. could be phoning home — but we’re not hearing the call. A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal argues that “space weather” could be distorting incoming transmissions from ...

By LINDSEY BAHR It’s been a minute since we’ve had a big screen space epic that’s as fun as it is awe inspiring. The last ...

Is Pluto a planet? What's up with the "space jellyfish?" And are aliens real? Astrophysicist, speaker and author Neil deGrasse Tyson, who is stopping in Pittsburgh later this month, answers our ...

Scientists studying distant exoplanets believe that plant life on some worlds could appear red rather than green. The reason lies in the type of light emitted by the host star and how organisms evolve ...

"Maybe the best hypothesis is that aliens beamed him up to the mothership," said the wife of Major General William Neil McCasland.

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 ...

The machines are built from autonomous modules that can be snapped together in a variety of forms ...