A new exoplanet model screens rocky worlds by their ability to retain atmospheres over geologic timescales, helping narrow the search for potentially habitable planets beyond Earth.

Brian Johnson, who has died aged 86, was an Oscar-winning visual effects maestro and modelling specialist who contributed significantly to the look of modern science fiction.

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 ...

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

Researchers in a recent breakthrough study have found the possibility of structures in the Milky Way that could be built by ...

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

Thousands of people have reported UFOs or alien encounters in Northern California. That number could soon go up.

While telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) can detect the chemical fingerprints of distant atmospheres, ...

Astronomers have sharply revised down the mass of nearby super Earth GJ 3378b, dramatically improving its prospects as a ...

Hoyt Richards spent his modeling heyday leading "a double life." "Even when I was at the height of my career, taking transatlantic flights and staying in five-star hotels," he says in the new HBO ...

Brian Johnson, one of the most legendary special effects artists in the history of the industry, and whose work shaped some of the most iconic science-fiction movies and television shows ever made, ...

Colin Farrell is back for Season 2 of Apple TV's L.A.-based neo-noir 'Sugar,' which has a new showrunner and sports a new look.