Years before he created The Twilight Zone, Rod Serling tried to tell a story inspired by Emmet Till, the Black teenager lynched in Mississippi in 1955 for ...

The volcanic archipelago, a UK dependent territory 2,400km west of Cape Town, with a population of fewer than 300, has designated nearly 700,000km² of sovereign waters (about three times the land area ...

Red dwarfs make up the vast majority of stars in the galaxy. Such ubiquity means they host the majority of rocky exoplanets ...

A new study challenges the traditional boundaries of the habitable zone, showing that liquid water could exist on the dark ...

Anyone familiar with the search for alien life will have heard of the "Goldilocks Zone" around a star. This is defined as the orbital band where the temperature is just right for liquid water to pool ...

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...

Mankind encountering forces beyond their understanding has long been a great playground for horror, as exemplified by these big screen cosmic terrors.

Scientists identify exoplanet candidate HD 137010 b, a possible Earth-size world orbiting a Sun-like star 146 light-years away ...

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Science fiction at its best isn't always just about spaceships and aliens. While blockbusters give us explosions and invasions, the truly great ones use their futuristic settings to dig into questions ...

New research casts doubt on the prospects for a habitable, active environment beneath the frozen surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa. The new work is not based on direct observations, but on calculations ...