K2-18b is one of the most promising worlds for the search for extraterrestrial life, so astronomers conducted an unusually ...

A planet with one side permanently roasting and the other frozen in endless darkness might still have a chance of supporting life. Researchers found that heat inside a tidally locked exoplanet could ...

Astronomers have revised the mass of nearby exoplanet GJ 3378 b, recasting it as a rocky super‑Earth in the habitable zone ...

Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got ...

Aliens in Our Imagination: Friendly or Frightening? From the pointy ears of the Vulcans to the razor-sharp teeth of the ...

Alas, it’s not a study-abroad course – yet – but exoplanets may provide insight into how life formed on Earth.

In "Hidden Creatures," a young entomologist discovers the miraculous world of parasites when cocoons sprout from a ...

Forget Hollywood: aliens should look as different to us as we do to bananas, saysdeGrasse Tyson ...

Alien Earth Season 2 begins filming in London with Tracey Ullman, Sam Spruell, and Jerome Flynn joining the FX series. Their ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. You might think this column is about UFOs and the Pentagon's ...

Eventually, we'll launch a mission dedicated solely to studying an interstellar object. When that day comes, which one should ...

Sharks are taking over the summer television schedule in July when Shark Week returns. The summer tradition airs every year ...