Oxygen has been the most important gas in our search for life among the cosmos thus far. On Earth, we have it in abundance ...

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about ...

Talk about a hot mess. Scientists have uncovered a hellish “lava world” where temperatures soar to a blistering 2,700 degrees ...

Star Wars had been released in theaters and changed everything about the way Hollywood perceived the genre, and television ...

Debunking alien claims matters, but so does telling richer, more compelling stories about how humans shaped their own past.

Seven years ago, Andy Weir was busy writing Project Hail Mary, his sci-fi epic about a school teacher, Dr Ryland Grace, who ...

By snatching chloroplasts from algae, animals called sacoglossans produce their own energy through photosynthesis ...

Astronomers have identified a strange new kind of exoplanet that challenges how scientists classify worlds beyond our Solar System. The planet, L 98-59 d, appears to contain a vast ocean of molten ...

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 memorable one might ...

Ryan Gosling’s movie star aura elevates Project Hail Mary even when the directors fumble it, writes Alistair Harkness ...

Astronomers have discovered a bizarre exoplanet slightly larger than Earth, covered by a vast magma ocean and wrapped in a sulfur‑rich atmosphere. Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope ...

A civilization capable of interstellar travel may also be one that has moved beyond conquest, excess and ecological ...