Investigating an area of interesting light rock seen from orbit, Curiosity found some particularly weird-looking structures.

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist having a Eureka moment, realising in a single dramatic instant that Earth is ...

Scientists suggest that advanced aliens might not have physical bodies, challenging traditional views of extraterrestrial ...

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously ...

A siphonophore—a colonial marine invertebrate related to the venomous stinging Portuguese Man-o-war—is scanned using Deep ...

Somewhere out there, a planet roughly the size of Earth may be orbiting a distant star in conditions that could support life.

Director Craig Gillespie, known for I, Tonya (2017) and Cruella (2021), ventures into superhero territory for the first time ...

Ridley Scott's near-perfect sci-fi horror masterpiece is surging on streaming before the franchise's next release.

One of the best horror games of the 2010s was Creative Assembly's Alien: Isolation, but it certainly took some time for audiences to see it in its proper light. Though it initially received mixed ...

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was a global phenomenon that spawned many knockoffs, with films like Purple People Eater, Badi, ...

A new exoplanet model screens rocky worlds by their ability to retain atmospheres over geologic timescales, helping narrow ...

When Gene Roddenberry created "Star Trek" in the 1960s, he instituted several rules for starship design that are still ...