Leonard Nimoy thought Spock would never fight with a weapon if necessary.

Behind the acid blood and jump scares of the Alien franchise is an even more insidious horror: a single employer with ...

Deep within massive rocky exoplanets, hidden oceans of molten rock may be generating powerful magnetic fields in an ...

Shinehill is an unexpected delight, and it offers a Resident Alien sort of twist on the farming life sim genre.

In these science fiction books, extraterrestrial beings are sympathetic, horrifying and everything in between.

For a long time, it was thought that this [technique] required telescopes in space,” says John Mather, the Nobel ...

Ridley Scott's 'Alien' began a horror franchise that centers around one woman's aim to defend the galaxy against space ...

If the government confirms nonhuman intelligence, psychological research offers clues about the range of ways humans might ...

The “alien” is actually a potato. Specifically, it is a purple tuber nicknamed Spudnik-1, grown and photographed by Pettit.

Scientists have uncovered a surprising way to study the harsh space weather around young M dwarf stars. Mysterious dips in starlight turned out to be massive rings of plasma swirling in the stars’ ...

After years of discovering exoplanets at a staggering pace, astronomers are now starting to distinguish the simply interesting from the truly promising. A new study highlights a select group of rocky ...

This artistic illustration shows the TRAPPIST-1 red dwarf star system, home to seven Earth-sized exoplanets, several of which lie within the star’s habitable zone. In the foreground is TRAPPIST-1 b, ...