Sci-fi is one of the most popular genres at the box office, with franchises like the MCU, Star Wars, and Avatar dominating ...

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From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

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Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

Astronomers thought they had seen the "first hints of life on an alien world" this year, but they disappeared under closer ...

Avatar’s sequels focus heavily on human family drama, sidelining Pandora’s unique world. This shift risks erasing the ...

The search for intelligent life in our galaxy is shifting from abstract speculation to detailed cartography, as researchers ...

Scientists have for the first time mapped the 3D structure of an exoplanet’s atmosphere, uncovering violent winds and bizarre ...

For the first time, scientists have directly detected molecules in a Frisbee of gas and dust swirling around an alien gas-giant planet. “I didn’t think this was possible,” says astronomer Sierra Grant ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made the first 3D map of an alien planet's atmosphere, revealing extreme temperature swings on the exoplanet WASP-18b. When you purchase through ...