Red and white dwarfs may turn out to be the most promising objects for searching for hypothetical Dyson spheres, systems ...

The Sun produces more energy in a single second than humanity has used throughout its entire history. Every day, it releases ...

Somewhere in the Milky Way, a star that should blaze in visible light glows instead with a faint, cold warmth in the infrared — and no natural phenomenon can account for it. A physicist at the ...

Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got stranded on earth when his alien compadres abandoned their botany mission. In ...

(via Vox) F1 races are exhilarating. While racing alongside 21 other cars, an F1 driver can reach speeds of up to 231 mph, making it one of the world's most dangerous sports.

Some sci-fi films swing big and miss even bigger, leaving behind production troubles, unhappy audiences, and legendary cautionary tales. This list looks at titles that struggled with execution, ...

Movies love big ideas and bigger visuals, which often means science gets bent out of shape to keep the story moving. Some of these films play fast and loose with physics, biology, or geology in ways ...