Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s ...

“Project Hail Mary,” the movie adaptation to Andy Weir’s 2021 novel about a science teacher attempting to save the Earth from ...

If we're to find extraterrestrial life in the universe, astronomers have pinpointed the best places to look for it. They have ...

Assembly Theory shifts the search for life from identifying specific molecules to measuring chemical complexity, offering a ...

Seventy years ago this month, he sought out strange new worlds as a proto-Captain Kirk in sci-fi classic "Forbidden Planet".

Alien planets are far away but extreme lasers on Earth are giving scientists a way to investigate what they're like.

Scientists have identified 45 Earth-like exoplanets that are the strongest known candidates for hosting extraterrestrial life.

Project Hail Mary ," the movie adaptation to Andy Weir's 2021 novel about a science teacher attempting to save the Earth from sun-eating microbes ...

Our Moon is hostile to life. But this doesn’t mean that moons elsewhere in the universe are inhospitable to life. Far away from the solar system, moons of free-floating planets can keep water in ...

An ancient Martian system of canyons and valleys could be home to archaic life forms, a ground-breaking scientific paper has found. Scientists investigating the Red Planet’s mind-boggling cave system ...

Movie trailers are infamous for giving away too much, particularly seen with the ones for sci-fi films like Project Hail Mary ...

The current decade has been huge for sci-fi fans. We're only partway through, but here are our top picks for the best sci-fi TV shows of the 2020s so far.