Planets that once lived only in pulp novels and movie concept art are now turning up in real data. Astronomers are not just finding distant worlds, they are cataloguing places with molten surfaces, ...

Astronomers have discovered an additional 100 new worlds in data collected by NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS, ...

Worlds upon worlds await us in the cosmos and we’re finding more all the time. Before 1992, we weren’t even completely certain planets existed outside of our solar system. Now, astronomers are finding ...

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

The Alien franchise has been a cornerstone of the sci-fi genre since Ridley Scott unleashed the xenomorph on the world in 1979. Now, as the decades have passed, the franchise has had highs and lows ...

The xenomorphs are the iconic mascots of the Alien franchise, with good reason. The creature designs by H.R. Giger are legendary in their ability to unnerve us: the elongated eyeless head, the black ...

That eyeball monster is pretty scary. But maybe not as scary as the trillionaires running the world. By Sean T. Collins Just how far are things going to go? That’s a question on a lot of minds lately.

Sydney Chandler had terrible eyesight as a child. The 29-year-old star of Alien: Earth (and daughter of Kyle Chandler) grew up with severe vision impairment that was eventually corrected through ...

What do Xenomorph eggs feel like? According to the special effects experts who designed them for Alien: Earth, the answer is warm and sticky. Second Skin Studio worked directly with Wētā Workshop and ...