The scientific wonderers at What If analyze the gruesome physical toll that extreme gravity, radiation, and toxic air would ...

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Twelve humans were selected for a mission unlike anything in history—traveling 40 light years to an alien world. But what ...

Aristotle believed the planets revolved around Earth and God could not have created other worlds. Today, scientists scour the ...

I’m happy to think of people reading Red Mars in 2026. Its story begins around this year, but I wrote the book between 1989 and 1991, so naturally one aspect of reading it now is to note all the ...

Bummed that your favorite SyFy show, Resident Alien, ended without a proper finale? Well, Resident Alien Nation, there’s some ...

A research team has developed a new approach to detecting life beyond Earth that does not rely on identifying specific ...

A new study proposes detecting life in space by spotting patterns across many planets instead of focusing on one at a time.

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

From lava tubes on Mars to ice pockets on Europa, subterranean environments may offer the best chance of finding life—and living safely—beyond our planet. “I was like, ‘OK, I'm pretty sure that ...

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

Peter Dinklage is about to have another franchise under his belt. The actor has joined the cast of "Alien: Earth" Season 2 at ...