detecting in an alien planet’s atmosphere the chemical fingerprints of gases that on Earth are produced only by biological processes. The two gases - dimethyl sulfide, or DMS, and dimethyl ...

It was a simple question asked over lunch in 1950. Enrico Fermi, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped usher in the ...

The curious minds at What If investigate what surviving a crash on an alien planet would truly entail in terms of survival ...

SCIENTISTS have stumbled across a new Super-Earth that orbits inside its star’s habitable zone with a new alien-hunting tool.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has imaged 14 Her c, one of the coldest, oldest, and faintest planets known to date.

Elizabeth Shaw is the main character in Prometheus. Along with her partner, Charlie Holloway, Shaw discovers a 35,000-year-old cave painting that presumably ...

Based on the original Ridley Scott movie, FX’s Alien: Earth is set to premiere on Aug. 12 on Hulu. The series stars Sydney ...

Aphelion is the latest from Don't Nod, and it is leaning decidedly science-ficiton. The game appears to follow two astronauts who crash-land on an alien planet. It is also being developed in ...